Terrorist attack
Open on the mapKfar Yuval hostage crisis: a terror cell consisting of Palestinian Arab assailants from the Arab Liberation Front cross the border from Lebanon and manage to…
15 Jun 1975 · 33.25° N, 35.60° E
What the records say
- When
- 15 Jun 1975
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 33.25° N, 35.60° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Kfar Yuval hostage crisis.
Summary
Kfar Yuval hostage crisis: a terror cell consisting of Palestinian Arab assailants from the Arab Liberation Front cross the border from Lebanon and manage to infiltrate moshav Kfar Yuval in the night and enter one of the houses of the moshav. They kill one of the family members who tries to fight them and then hold the rest of the family members as hostages, demanding the release of Palestinian assailants held in Israeli prisons. A raid by an IDF infantry unit kills all four assailants. Two hostages and one soldier are also killed during the raid.
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