Word: shemona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resignation speech before the Knesset. The modernistic chamber was filled to capacity as she trudged to the podium. The mood of the meeting was even more grim than expected: that morning, Palestinian guerrillas had sneaked across Israel's border from Lebanon to carry out a massacre at Qiryat Shemona in which 18 people were killed (see following story). The raid, Mrs. Meir said, "surpasses in its barbarity all that has gone before." She followed up an account of the assault with an explanation of her decision to resign. In a brief, stiff and somewhat bitter speech, she acknowledged...
Shortly after dawn one day last week, three Arab terrorists, dressed in khakis, blue windbreakers and gym shoes, crept into the sleeping Israeli village of Qiryat Shemona (pop. 17,000) near the Lebanese border. Armed with bazookas, grenades and submachine guns, they shot their way up to the top of a four-story apartment building, firing indiscriminately into one apartment after the other. As sirens sounded and townspeople scurried for shelter, Israeli troops rushed to the scene. When the shooting stopped four hours later, 18 Israeli men, women and children-as well as the three terrorists-lay dead. At least...
...which three Japanese terrorists killed 27 people and wounded 80. More ominously, it threatened to touch off another violent round of reprisals and counterreprisals in the Middle East. Within 48 hours, in fact, Israeli army units carried out retaliatory raids on six Lebanese villages across the border from Qiryat Shemona. They blew up houses and installations that they claimed had been used by terrorist organizations and took about ten suspected terrorists as prisoners. The Israelis said there were no casualties, but a Lebanese official claimed that a woman and her 10-year-old daughter had been killed...
Credit for the attack on Qiryat Shemona was claimed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command-a small, radical and secretive offshoot of George Habash's P.F.L.P. Threatening "more revolutionary suicide missions" inside Israel, a spokesman for the Command told a news conference in Beirut that "this campaign is aimed at blocking an Arab-Israeli peace settlement." In spite of the potentially appalling consequences, the raid was applauded in much of the Arab world. The Palestine Liberation Organization, headed by Yasser Arafat, praised the action for carrying the battle to "the enemy...
...Golan Heights, the Israelis managed to stop the Syrian forces with antitank guns and ditches. The area was the center of heavy dogfighting as Syrian planes penetrated Israeli airspace, strafing farm villages. Some of the dogfights could be watched clearly by residents of Kiryat Shemona in upper eastern Galilee. In one such clash, a formation of 21 Syrian MIGS was seen heading in the direction of Kiryat Shemona; then one plane fell to earth and shells littered the area...