 Maximos also asserted that Israel had entered East Jerusalem illegally and against United Nations resolutions.Capucci was among the prisoners whose release was demanded by Palestinian hijackers of the Kfar Yuval hostage crisis in 1975, and of German and Palestinian hijackers of Air France Flight 139 (the Entebbe hostage crisis), in 1976.He was released two years later, in 1978, due to intervention by the Vatican, after having served four years of the 12-years sentence.