Video: 'The Sensational 70s - 1970' (May 22, 1970, at 28:44)

(Friday, May 22, 1970, morning local time; during the Avivim school bus massacre, part of Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon) — 12 civilians, nine of them children, were killed and 25 wounded, most of them children, when a school bus was ambushed this morning in Israel on the road to Moshav Avivim, near Israel’s border with Lebanon.

No one escaped unhurt in the crowded bus, which was struck by Two rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) fired from a clump of bushes five yards from the road when the bus was about 20 yards away.

The attack was one of the first carried out by the PFLP-GC, a Palestinian nationalist militant organisation based in Syria.