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Kiryat Shmona massacre
Part of Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon
IDF soldiers outside Janusz Korczak middle school
The attack site
Location	Kiryat Shmona, Israel
Date	April 11, 1974
Attack type	Shooting spree
Deaths	18 Israelis, including 8 children (+ 3 attackers)
Injured (non-fatal)	15 Israelis
Perpetrators	3 Palestinian assailants. PFLP-GC claimed responsibility.

Palestinian insurgency
in South Lebanon

Engagements

International incidents

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 Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona on 11 April 1974. Eighteen people were killed and 16 were wounded.^[1]

1 The attack
2 Aftermath
3 See also
4 External links
5 References

The attack [edit]

On 11 April 1974, three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command crossed the Israeli border from Lebanon. First, they entered the Janusz Korczak middle school, but it was the Passover holiday and the school was unoccupied. They then decided to enter another building nearby. They killed many of that building's residents. The terrorists then blew themselves up as Israeli soldiers stormed the building.^[2]

Aftermath [edit]

More attacks on northern Israel followed by Palestinian insurgents, including the Ma'alot massacre the same year, the Savoy Hotel Attack and Kfar Yuval hostage crisis in 1975, and multiple airplane hijacking acts, the most notable being Entebbe Operation in 1976. Following the bloody attack on an Israeli bus on March 1978, Israel launched its first large-scale invasion into Lebanon to eradicate Palestinian bases.

External links [edit]

Israel Forces Attack 6 Lebanese Villages in Retaliatory Raids - published on the Los Angeles Times on April 13, 1974

References [edit]

^ Arab Terrorists Slay 18 In Raid On Israel, April 13, 1974
^ Modern Israel & the Diaspora (1970-1979) Jewish Virtual Library

v t e Prominent terrorist attacks against Israelis in the history of the Arab–Israeli conflict – the 1970s

1970	Swissair Flight 330 attack (February 21) Avivim school bus massacre (May 22)

1971	Murder of the Aroyo children (January 2)

1972	Sabena Flight 571 hijacking (May 8) Lod Airport massacre (May 30) Munich massacre (5–6 September) Israeli Bangkok embassy hostage crisis (December 28)

1973	Assassination of the Israeli attache in Washington (July 1)

1974	Kiryat Shmona massacre (April 11) Ma'alot massacre (May 15) Nahariya attack (24–25 June) TWA Flight 841 bombing (September 8) Beit She'an attack (November 19)

1975	Savoy Hotel Attack (March 6) Kfar Yuval hostage crisis (June 15) Zion Square refrigerator bombing (July 4)

1976	Hijacking of Air France Flight 139 (June 27)

1978	Coastal Road massacre (March 11) ‡

1979	Nahariya massacre (April 22)

Attacks launched from the West Bank Attacks launched from the Gaza strip Attacks launched from Lebanon Attacks launched from Jordan ‡ indicates the terrorist attack which caused the greatest amount of Israeli casualties during the 1970s Full list of Lebanese rocket attacks on Israel 1960s 1980s

v t e Prominent Palestinian militancy attacks in the 1970s

Within Israel	Avivim school bus massacre^* (May 22, 1970) Lod Airport massacre (May 30, 1972) Kiryat Shmona massacre^* (April 11, 1974) Ma'alot massacre^* (May 15, 1974) Nahariya attack^* (24–25 June, 1974) Beit She'an attack (November 19, 1974) Savoy Hotel Attack^* (March 6, 1975) Kfar Yuval hostage crisis^* (June 15, 1975) Zion Square refrigerator bombing (July 4, 1975) Coastal Road massacre^* (March 11, 1978) Nahariya massacre^* (April 22, 1979)

Within the Gaza Strip	Murder of the Aroyo children (January 2, 1971)

Aircraft hijackings	Swissair Flight 330 attack (February 21, 1970) Sabena Flight 571 hijacking (May 8, 1972) TWA Flight 841 Attack (September 8, 1974) Kidnapping of Air France Flight 139 (June 27, 1976)

Worldwide	Munich massacre (5–6 September, 1972) Israeli Bangkok embassy hostage crisis (December 28, 1972) Assassination of the Israeli attache in Washington (July 1, 1973)

^* Attacks launched from Lebanon 1960s 1980s

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Participants

Israel

Palestinians

Main	Palestine Liberation Organisation Palestinian National Authority Fatah Hamas

Other	Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades DFLP Palestine Liberation Front Palestinian Islamic Jihad Palestinian Popular Struggle Front PFLP PFLP-GC Popular Resistance Committees

Influence

Individuals

Israelis	Moshe Arens Ami Ayalon Ehud Barak Menachem Begin Meir Dagan Moshe Dayan Avi Dichter Yuval Diskin David Ben-Gurion Ephraim Halevy Dan Halutz Tzipi Livni Golda Meir Shaul Mofaz Yitzhak Mordechai Benjamin Netanyahu Ehud Olmert Shimon Peres Yaakov Peri Yitzhak Rabin Amnon Lipkin-Shahak Yitzhak Shamir Ariel Sharon Shabtai Shavit Moshe Ya'alon Danny Yatom Zvi Zamir

Palestinians	Abu Abbas Mahmoud Abbas Moussa Arafat Yasser Arafat Yahya Ayyash Marwan Barghouti Mohammed Dahlan Mohammed Deif George Habash Wadie Haddad Ismail Haniya Nayef Hawatmeh Amin al-Husayni Ghazi Jabali Ahmed Jibril Abu Jihad Salah Khalaf Leila Khaled Sheikh Khalil Khaled Mashal Zuheir Mohsen Abu Ali Mustafa Abu Nidal Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Jibril Rajoub Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi Ali Hassan Salameh Salah Shahade Ramadan Shallah Fathi Shaqaqi Ahmed Yassin

Violence

Background	1920 Palestine riots 1921 Jaffa riots 1929 Palestine riots 1929 Hebron massacre 1936–39 Arab revolt 1930s Irgun attacks

1940s–1960s	1948 Arab-Israeli War 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine Fedayeen attacks The retribution operations 1967 Six-Day War War of Attrition 1968 Battle of Karameh

1970s	Palestinian insurgency 1970 Avivim school bus massacre 1972 Operation Isotope 1972 Munich massacre 1972 Operation Wrath of God 1974 Kiryat Shmona massacre 1974 Ma'alot massacre 1975 Savoy Hotel attack 1976 Operation Entebbe 1978 Coastal Road massacre 1978 South Lebanon conflict 1980 Misgav Am attack 1973 Yom Kippur War 1975 Zion Square bombing

1980s	1982 Lebanon War 1982 Siege of Beirut 1984 Bus 300 hijacking 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking 1985 Operation Wooden Leg 1987 Night of the Gliders

First Intifada	1987–93 Intifada 1988 Tunis Raid 1989 Bus 405 attack 1991 Gulf War 1993–99 Palestinian suicide attacks 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre

Second Intifada	2000–05 Al-Aqsa Intifada Palestinian rocket attacks list Palestinian suicide attacks Assassinations during Al-Aqsa Intifada 2000 October 2000 events 2001 Santorini 2002 Operation Noah's Ark 2002 Operation Defensive Shield Battle of Jenin Siege of Bethlehem Battle of Nablus 2002 Operation Determined Path 2003 Abu Hasan 2003 Ain es Saheb airstrike Operation Rainbow Operation Days of Penitence

2000s	2006 Operation Bringing Home the Goods 2008 Mercaz HaRav shooting 2008 Jerusalem bulldozer attack 2010 Palestinian militancy campaign

Gaza Strip	Israel-Gaza conflict 2006 Gaza beach explosion Hamas cross-border raid Operation Summer Rains Operation Autumn Clouds Beit Hanoun shelling 2008 Breach of the Gaza–Egypt border Operation Hot Winter 2008–2009 Gaza War (Operation Cast Lead) 2010 Gaza flotilla raid 2012 Operation Returning Echo Operation Pillar of Defense

Diplomacy

Topics and events	Hussein–McMahon Correspondence Sykes–Picot Agreement Balfour Declaration White Paper of 1939 Israeli Declaration of Independence Palestinian Declaration of Independence 1991 Madrid Conference 1993 Oslo Accords United States security assistance to the Palestinian Authority 1997 Hebron Agreement 1998 Wye River Memorandum 1999 Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum 2000 Camp David Summit 2001 Taba Summit 2002 Road map for peace Quartet on the Middle East 2005 Israel's unilateral disengagement plan 2007 Annapolis Conference 2009 Aftonbladet Israel controversy Valley of Peace initiative Direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians in 2010 Palestine Papers

UN involvement	Israel, Palestine, and the United Nations UN Partition Plan Resolution 181 UN Resolution 194 UN Resolution 242 Alleged United Nations bias in Israel-Palestine issues

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