On this day in history: May 15, 1974, Palestinian terrorists carried out one of the most traumatic massacres in Israel's history - The Ma'alot massacre. They seized a school, murdering 28 people, more than 20 of them children, and injured dozens more.
Three Palestinian terrorists from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine crossed into Israel from Lebanon. Before even reaching the school, they murdered civilians, including members of the Cohen family in Ma’alot: Yosef, his pregnant wife Fortuna, and their 4 year old son Moshe. Then they took dozens of Israeli schoolchildren hostage inside the Netiv Meir school.
The terrorists held 85 students, two medics, and two teachers, demanding the release of imprisoned terrorists. When Israeli forces launched a rescue attempt, the terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at the children trapped in the classroom. In the end, 22 schoolchildren were murdered, along with other civilians and a soldier, bringing the Israeli death toll to 28. Sixty more were seriously wounded.
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