Avivim school bus bombing

When

22 May 1970

Kind

Terrorist attack

Coordinates

33.06° N, 35.42° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Avivim school bus bombing.

Avivim school bus massacre: Palestinian Arab militants from the Palestine Liberation Organization attack the community school bus from the Israeli moshav Avivim, killing nine children and three adults, and crippling for life 19 children.

1970 terrorist attack by Palestinian militants in Israel

The Avivim school bus bombing was a terrorist attack on an Israeli school bus on 22 May 1970, in which 12 civilians were killed, nine of them children, and 25 were wounded, one of whom died of a wound sustained in the attack 44 years later. The attack took place on the road to Moshav Avivim, near Israel's border with Lebanon. Two rocket-propelled grenades were fired at the bus.

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