The Kiryat Shmona massacre was an attack by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command on civilians in the

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i town of

Kiryat Shmona Kiryat Shmona ( he, קִרְיַת שְׁמוֹנָה, ''lit.'' Town of the Eight) is a city in the Northern District of Israel on the western slopes of the Hula Valley near the Lebanese border. The city was named after the eight people, inclu ...

on 11 April 1974. Eighteen people were killed, nearly half of them children, and 16 were wounded.

The attack

On 11 April 1974, three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command crossed the

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. First, they entered the

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middle school, but it was the

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holiday and the school was unoccupied. They then decided to enter another building nearby. They killed many of that building's residents. The attackers then blew themselves up as Israeli soldiers stormed the building.Modern Israel & the Diaspora (1970-1979)
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Aftermath

More attacks on northern Israel followed by Palestinian militants, including the

Ma'alot massacre The Ma'alot massacreSources describing the event as a "massacre": * "The day after the Ma'alot massacre, condemned by Pope Paul VI and most Western leaders as 'an evil outrage…'" Frank Gervasi. ''Thunder Over the Mediterranean'', McKay, 1975 ...

the same year, the

Savoy Hotel attack The Savoy Hotel attack was a terrorist attack by the Palestine Liberation Organization against the Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 4–5 March 1975. Background The operation was planned by Abu Jihad. Initial Palestinian planning had cal ...

and

Kfar Yuval hostage crisis The Kfar Yuval hostage crisis, which took place during 15 June 1975, was a raid by a squad of Palestinian militants belonging to the Arab Liberation Front on the Israeli moshav of Kfar Yuval in which the militants took residents as hostages an ...

in 1975, and multiple airplane hijacking acts, the most notable being Entebbe Operation in 1976.

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Israel Forces Attack 6 Lebanese Villages in Retaliatory Raids
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on 13 April 1974

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The attack

Aftermath

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