The 1979 Nahariya attack was a raid by four Palestine Liberation Front militants, led by 16-year-old Samir Kuntar, that killed three Israelis including a father and two young children. As of October 2023 the opening's short description called it a 1979 terrorist attack in Israel. Today the short description reads 1979 militant attack in Israel, with terror surviving 13 times in the body. A reader skimming the description today learns this was a militant attack, not that it was described as a terrorist attack.
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1979 terrorist attack in Israel The 1979 Nahariya attack (codenamed by its perpetrators as the Nasser Operation ) was a raid by four Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) militants in Nahariya , Israel on 22 April 1979. The group, consisting of Abdel Majeed Asslan, Mhanna Salim al-Muayed, and Ahmed al-Abras, and led by 16-year-old Samir Kuntar , used a small, 55 horsepower (41 kW) boat to travel from Tyre, Lebanon to Israel. During the attack they killed three Israelis, including a father and two of his young children. Another child was accidentally suffocated in efforts to hide her from the attackers. Kuntar and al-Abras were captured, convicted of murder by an Israeli court, and sentenced to several life sentences. Both Kuntar and al-Abras were later set free in prisoner swap deals conducted between Israel and Lebanese militant organizations – al-Abras in 1985, and Kuntar in 2008.
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33°00′N 35°05′E  /  33.00°N 35.09°E  / 33.00; 35.09 Samir Kuntar The 1979 Nahariya attack (codenamed by its perpetrators as the Nasser Operation ) was a raid by four Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) militants in Nahariya , Israel on April 22, 1979. The group, consisting of Abdel Majeed Asslan, Mhanna Salim al-Muayed, and Ahmed al-Abras, and led by 16-year-old Samir Kuntar , used a small, 55 horsepower (41 kW) boat to travel from Tyre, Lebanon to Israel. The raid resulted in the deaths of four Israelis - including a father and two of his young children - and two of the perpetrators. Kuntar and al-Abras were captured, convicted of murder by an Israeli court, and sentenced to several life sentences. Both were later exchanged in prisoner swap deals - al-Abras in 1985, and Kuntar in 2008.
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The 1979 Nahariya attack (codenamed by its perpetrators as the Nasser Operation ) was a raid by four Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) militants in Nahariya , Israel on April 22, 1979. The group, consisting of Abdel Majeed Asslan, Mhanna Salim al-Muayed, and Ahmed al-Abras, and led by 16-year-old Samir Kuntar , used a small, 55 horsepower (41 kW) boat to travel from Tyre, Lebanon to Israel. The raid resulted in the deaths of four Israelis – including a father and two of his young children – and two of the perpetrators. Kuntar and al-Abras were captured, convicted of murder by an Israeli court, and sentenced to several life sentences. Both Kuntar and al-Abras were later set free in prisoner swap deals conducted between Israel and Lebanese militant organizations – al-Abras in 1985, and Kuntar in 2008.
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The 1979 Nahariya attack (codenamed by its perpetrators as the Nasser Operation ) was a raid by four Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) militants in Nahariya , Israel on April 22, 1979. The group, consisting of Abdel Majeed Asslan, Mhanna Salim al-Muayed, and Ahmed al-Abras, and led by 16-year-old Samir Kuntar , used a small, 55 horsepower (41 kW) boat to travel from Tyre, Lebanon to Israel. During the attack they killed three Israelis, including a father and two of his young children.Another child was accidentally suffocated in efforts to hide her from the attackers. Kuntar and al-Abras were captured, convicted of murder by an Israeli court, and sentenced to several life sentences. Both Kuntar and al-Abras were later set free in prisoner swap deals conducted between Israel and Lebanese militant organizations – al-Abras in 1985, and Kuntar in 2008.
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1979 militant attack in Israel Not to be confused with 1974 Nahariya attack . The 1979 Nahariya attack (codenamed by its perpetrators as the Nasser Operation ) was a raid by four Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) militants in Nahariya , Israel on 22 April 1979. The group, consisting of Abdel Majeed Asslan, Mhanna Salim al-Muayed, and Ahmed al-Abras, and led by 16-year-old Samir Kuntar , used a small, 55 horsepower (41 kW) boat to travel from Tyre, Lebanon to Israel. During the attack they killed three Israelis, including a father and two of his young children. Another child was accidentally suffocated in efforts to hide her from the attackers. Kuntar and al-Abras were captured, convicted of murder by an Israeli court, and sentenced to several life sentences. Kuntar denied killing the civilians, saying they were killed by Israeli forces' fire. Both Kuntar and al-Abras were later set free in prisoner swap deals conducted between Israel and Lebanese militant organizations – al-Abras in 1985, and Kuntar in 2008. In retaliation for the attack, Israeli forces bombarded a Palestinian refugee camp, killing three civilians.
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