Word: beisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intensive bombing, including one 14-hour dawn-to-dusk raid, or that they shot down three Egyptian planes to bring their kills since 1967 to 101 (v. losses of nine). Near the Jordan border, Arab guerrillas fired Soviet-supplied, 220-mm. Katyusha rockets into the dusty town of Beisan on three occasions, killing three ten-year-old girls and wounding 36 people, mostly children. For the first time since 1948, rockets fell on Tiberias, a resort on the Sea of Galilee, killing two and wounding four...