Last Sunday, a documentary aired on Israeli television about the Kiryat Shmona terrorist attack, which in its time was one of the worst in the country’s history. Amy Spiro writes:
The terrorists, affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, crossed into Israel early on the morning of April 11, 1974, managing to go undetected for more than an hour. Their first target was an elementary school, but the classrooms were empty since it was the intermediate days of Passover.
They then crossed the street, entered the apartment building at 13 Yehuda Halevi Street and killed a number of residents before moving to the building next door, No. 15, first killing the gardener, then climbing the stairs and shooting everyone they encountered.
The three terrorists barricaded themselves in an apartment on the top floor, where an exchange of gunfire ultimately blew up the backpack of explosives they were carrying, killing all three. Two IDF soldiers were also killed in the incident, alongside sixteen civilians, including eight children. . . .
In the decades that have followed, the horrific massacre has largely faded from the public consciousness, with many unaware that the terror attack ever happened and little national remembrance.
Read more on Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/almost-50-years-after-forgotten-kiryat-shmona-massacre-a-new-film-seeks-to-remind-us/