The Palestinian Authority has extradited to France a key suspect in a deadly 1982 terror attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris, Arabic news reports said Thursday.

The terror shooting, in which six people were killed and 22 injured, was at the time the deadliest antisemitic atrocity in France since World War II.

Mahmoud Khader Abed Adra, known as “Hicham Harb,” is suspected of leading the attackers in the gun assault on the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in Paris’s Marais district, a historically Jewish quarter. He has been the subject of an international arrest warrant for 10 years.

Last September, reports said Harb, now 70, had been arrested by PA security forces, though this was never officially confirmed by the authority.

According to the Qatari newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, a hearing had been scheduled for Thursday at a Palestinian court in Ramallah regarding France’s extradition request.

However, Harb’s family instead received a call from the Ramallah police chief informing them that he was en route to Jordan, from where he would be extradited to France, the report said.

The attack began around midday when a grenade was tossed into the dining room of the Parisian eatery.

The attackers then........

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