Kiryat Shmona massacre

On April 11, 1974, three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command crossed the Israeli border from Lebanon. They entered an apartment building in the town of Kiryat Shmona and murdered all eighteen residents there, including nine children. [1] [2].

Subsequently, the prevention of such attacks was cited as a ground for Israel's Operation Litani.

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