Moussa Arafat The explosion may have been set off by a burning fuel tank, or by grenades. Time magazine magazine characterized it as "the worst terrorist attack in Israel's history. The next day all the schools and the main coastal road were closed and there was a night time curfew in certain areas while the army double checked that no-one had got away. The Palestinians claimed that the Israelis destroyed the bus with fire from helicopter gunships. [66][67], Palestinian Media Watch,[68] an Israeli NGO that monitors antisemitism and support for terrorism in Palestinian society, has cited examples of Palestinian media that regard Dalal Mughrabi as a heroine and role model. At one point they commandeered Bus 901, traveling from Tel Aviv to Haifa, and forced the passengers from the first bus to board it. Una lunga sparatoria ebbe luogo fra i combattenti del Fatḥ e la polizia israeliana. Il nome della guerrigliera fu anche dato a un campo estivo e a corsi per poliziotti e militari. Ricerche approfondite furono avviate nell'area di Gush Dan per scovare altri possibili guerriglieri, ma senza che vi fosse alcun ritrovamento. The plan was to seize a luxury hotel in Tel Aviv and take tourists and foreign ambassadors hostage in order to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. The Coastal road Massacre Info Documents Photos Videos On ... 1978, a group of eleven PLO-Fatah terrorists landed from rubber boats at the Maagan Michael beach on Israel's Coastal Road. According to the Israeli Police, Asaf Hefetz, then head of the Israeli Police counter-terrorism unit, arrived at the scene before his unit, and stormed the bus, killing two militants. [10] Trentacinque civili (38 secondo altre fonti) furono uccisi nell'attacco, tredici dei quali erano bambini, e settantuno civili furono feriti. La mattina dell'11 marzo 1978, Dalāl al-Maghribī e la sua unità di fedayyin palestinesi di 11 componenti (inclusa un'altra donna) presero terra su un battello pneumatico Zodiac su una spiaggia presso Ma'agan Michael a nord di Tel Aviv, dopo essere partiti dal Libano. [15] Police quickly set up a roadblock, but the militants plowed the bus through it and continued their journey. Thursday, March 11 marks 32 years since the Coastal Road Attack, the single most deadly terrorist attack carried out in Israel. وتذكر المصادر الفلسطينية أن قائد العملية هي الشابة دلال المغربي. Yitzhak Mordechai Ahmed Jibril Mahmūd Abbās Il massacro della Strada costiera del 1978 fu un assalto e un dirottamento di un autobus turistico, che percorreva la strada costiera 2, da parte di un commando armato di fedayyin palestinesi. Next week will mark forty years since the Coastal Road Massacre took place on March 11 th 1978. Critiche furono espresse anche per il fatto che non si fosse bloccato immediatamente il traffico autostradale non appena giunta notizia del sequestro del primo autoveicolo. Dan Halutz Israel news photo: file. Thirty-eight people – including thirteen children – were murdered and seventy-one wounded in that Fatah perpetrated attack, making it the single most deadly terrorist attack carried out in Israel. Khalil al-Wazir sent a Palestinian commando under Dalal Mughrabi to take a boat from Lebanon to the Israeli coastline, and two Palestinian guerrillas drowned when one of the Zodiac boats capsized during a storm. [10][11] The militants landed on a beach near the kibbutz Ma'agan Michael, north of Tel Aviv. On the eve of Prime Minister Menachem Begin’s planned departure for the United States for peace discussions with Egypt, a group of eleven Palestinian terrorists, who had departed from Lebanon by boat on March 9th, landed on a beach head north of Tel Aviv and embarked on one of the worst terrorist attacks in Israel’s history, the Coastal Road Massacre. Amin al-Husseini Il gruppo sparò su tutte le macchine che passavano vicino all'autobus. Atak został zaplanowany przez Abu Jihad i przeprowadzony przez frakcję OWP Fatah . In 1977 "...the United States appeared anxious to coordinate Arab approval of a Geneva peace conference, as well as the presence there of Palestinians, and most important, the cooperation of the Soviet Union. Dalāl fece esplodere l'autobus uccidendo tutti gli ostaggi. Maariv. The Coastal Road massacre of 1978 was an attack involving the hijacking of a bus on Israel 's Coastal Highway in which 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children, were killed, and 71 were wounded. I guerriglieri presero a sparare sui passeggeri che tentavano di fuggire. Danny Yatom Her name has also been given to summer camps and both police and military courses. [16][17] A firefight erupted, and police broke the bus' windows and yelled at passengers to jump. Golda Meir Ariel Sharon Special report # 39: Palestinian Culture and Society (Study No. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the CC-BY-SA. Avi Dichter Zvi Zamir, Abu Abbas "[13][14], Israeli police were alerted to the attack, and police cars caught up to the bus and began trailing it. Although Operation Litani failed to curb Palestinian terrorism completely, it did give Israel possession of territory adjacent to the Sheikh Khalil [59] Anwar Sadat's main concern was the territory of Sinai to be returned to Egypt from Israel. 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