A seaborne fedayeen raiding party, originating in …
Years: 1978 - 1978
March
A seaborne fedayeen raiding party, originating in Lebanon, lands in Israel and hijacks a bus on the Tel Aviv-Haifa road on March 11, 1978.
Thirty-seven civilian tourists die and eighty-two are wounded; Israeli security forces kill all nine Fatah operatives.
There follows the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon three days later (codename: Operation Litani) to destroy Palestinian bases and to force Lebanon to curb raids by the PLO into Israel.
