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Avivim school bus bombing
Part of the Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon
Avivim school bus.
Avivim school bus bombing is located in Northeast Israel
Avivim school bus bombing
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The attack site
LocationNear Avivim
Coordinates33°03′43″N 35°25′24″E / 33.06194°N 35.42333°E / 33.06194; 35.42333
Date22 May 1970; 53 years ago (1970-05-22)
TargetIsraeli school bus
Attack type
Ambush
WeaponsRocket propelled grenades, gunfire
Deaths12 civilians (including 9 children)
Injured25
PerpetratorPFLP-GC[1]

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 (RPGs) were fired at the bus.[2] The attack was one of the first carried out by the PFLP-GC.[1]

  1. ^ a b Yodfat, Aryeh; Arnon-Oḥanah, Yuval (1981). PLO Strategy and Politics. Croom Helm. ISBN 9780709929017. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  2. ^ "Moshav Avivim still stands determined during tensions". The Jerusalem Post – JPost.com. 7 July 2010. Retrieved 16 December 2014.

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