Coastal road massacre

The attack was planned by Abu Jihad and carried out by the PLO faction Fatah . The plan was to hijack the bus to Tel Aviv, seize a luxury hotel and take tourists and foreign ambassadors hostage in order to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. The timing was aimed at scuttling peace talks between Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat . Time magazine claimed that the attackers' intent was to "kill as many Israelis as possible." Fatah called the hijacking "Operation of the Martyr Kamal Adwan," after PLO chief of operations killed in the Israeli commando raid on Beirut in April 1973 . In response, the Israeli military forces launched Operation Litani against PLO bases in Lebanon three days later. " Operation Litani is launched in retaliation for that month's Coastal Road massacre." Gregory S.

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. The attack was planned by Abu Jihad and carried out by the PLO faction Fatah . 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. According to a Fatah commander who had helped to plan the attack, the timing was aimed at scuppering the Israeli-Egyptian peace talks between Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat and damaging tourism in Israel . However, due to a navigation error, the attackers ended up 40 miles (64 km) north of their target, and were forced to find alternative transportation to their destination. Time magazine characterized it as "the worst terrorist attack in Israel's history." Fatah called the hijacking "Operation of the Martyr Kamal Adwan", after the PLO chief of operations killed in the Israeli commando raid on Beirut in April 1973 . In response, the Israeli military forces launched Operation Litani against PLO bases in Lebanon three days later. " Operation Litani is launched in retaliation for that month's Coastal Road massacre." Gregory S. "A Sabbath of Terror" , Time magazine , March 20, 1978.

The Coastal Road massacre of 1978 was an attack involving the hijacking of a bus on Israel 's Coastal Highway in which 38 Israelis, including 13 children, were killed, and 71 were wounded. The attack was planned by Abu Jihad and carried out by the PLO faction Fatah . 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. According to a Fatah commander who had helped to plan the attack, the timing was aimed at scuppering the Israeli-Egyptian peace talks between Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat and damaging tourism in Israel . However, due to a navigation error, the attackers ended up 40 miles (64 km) north of their target, and were forced to find alternative transportation to their destination. Time magazine characterized it as "the worst terrorist attack in Israel's history." Fatah called the hijacking "Operation of the Martyr Kamal Adwan", after the PLO chief of operations killed in the Israeli commando raid on Beirut in April 1973 . In response, the Israeli military forces launched Operation Litani against PLO bases in Lebanon three days later. "A Sabbath of Terror" , Time magazine , March 20, 1978.

1978 hijacking of an Israeli bus by Palestinian militants near Tel Aviv The Coastal Road massacre occurred on 11 March 1978, when Palestinian militants hijacked a bus on the Coastal Highway of Israel and murdered its occupants; 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children, were killed as a result of the attack while 76 more were wounded. The attack was planned by the influential Palestinian militant leader Abu Jihad and carried out by Fatah , a Palestinian nationalist party founded by Jihad in 1959. The initial plan of the militants was to seize a luxury hotel in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv and take tourists and foreign ambassadors hostage in order to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody . According to a Fatah commander who had helped to plan the attack, the timing was aimed primarily at scuppering Israeli–Egyptian peace talks between Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat and damaging Israel's tourism sector . However, due to a navigational error, the attackers ended up 64 kilometres (40 mi) north of their target, and were forced to find an alternative method of transportation to their destination. Time characterized it as "the worst terrorist attack in Israel's history." Fatah dubbed the hijacking "Operation of the Martyr Kamal Adwan " after the chief of operations of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), who was killed during the Israeli commando raid on Lebanon in April 1973 . In response to the massacre, Israel launched Operation Litani against PLO bases in southern Lebanon three days later. "Statement to the press by Prime Minister Begin on the massacre of Israelis on the Haifa-Tel Aviv Road" . "A Sabbath of Terror" , Time , 20 March 1978.