Terrorists cross the Lebanese-Israeli border to ambush…

Terrorists cross the Lebanese-Israeli border to ambush a local council school bus from Avivim, just meters from the border with Lebanon, on May 8, 1970; it is an agricultural community established in 1963 when the Jewish Agency—following Israel's policy of populating its borders—settled about sixty families of unskilled immigrants from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.

The majority of the residents belong to one of two families, Peretz or Biton.

The terrorists fire on the bus, killing the adults instantly.

The bus driver continues until he himself is shot.

The bus then crashes, injuring many of the remaining children.

The attack, which is particularly brutal and tactically idiotic, causes the death of nione children (aged between six and nine) and three adults, and leaves nineteen others permanently crippled. (The terrorists are never apprehended.)