In the early morning of 5 September 1972, Safady and seven of his fellow fedayeen broke into the Israeli delegations headquarters at 31 Connollystraße. After the fedayeen had captured the Israel's in apartment number one and three, they led the Israeli's under guard down the stairs to the ground floor of the building. As Israeli wrestler Gad Tsobari reached the bottom of the stairs, he pushed a hooded terrorist aside and made a dash towards the entrance to the undergroundcar park. As Tsobari made his escape, the wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg tackled Safady, landing a devastating punch on the young fedayeen's jaw, fracturing it and knocking out several of his teeth. As Moshe Weinberg attempted to seize Safady's gun, which now lay on the floor, another fedayeen shot Weinberg through the chest with a burst from his Kalashnikov rifle.
Safady, along with Jamal and Adnan Al-Gashey were the only three of the eight terrorists to survive the firefight between German police and the Palestinian terrorists at Fürstenfeldbruck.
Aftermath
After their release by the German government on 29 October 1972, seven and a half weeks after they were captured, Safady along with Jamal and Adnan Al-Gashey were flown to Tripoli where they gave a press conference to the world's media. Safady can be seen seated to the right of Jamal Al-Gashey in the centre. Both Safady's and Adnan Al-Gashey's fate after the Munich attack has caused much speculation. The documentary One Day In September states that he was killed by Israeli assassination squads in the aftermath of the Munich operation. However, in his book Striking back : the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre and Israel's deadly response, author Aaron J Klein claims that during a conversation with Tawfiq Tirawi in Ramallah in 2005 he was told that Safady was "alive as you are". Tirawi did not divulge any further information, only adding that "the Israelis could still harm him." Klein also claims that members of the intelligence community speculated that Safady could have been killed by Lebanese Christian Phalangists as a 'gesture' to the Israeli Moss.
