International incidents The Avivim school bus bombing was a terrorist attack on an Israeli school bus on 22 May 1970, in which 12 civilians were killed, nine of them children, and 25 were wounded, one of whom died of a wound sustained in the attack 44 years later.

[1] Early in the morning, the bus departed from Avivim heading with its passengers to two local schools.

This route had been scouted by the Palestinian militants, believed to have infiltrated from Lebanon, and an ambush was set up.

As the bus passed by, ten minutes after leaving Avivim, it was attacked by heavy gunfire from both sides of the road.

[17] Israel retaliated for the massacre by shelling four Lebanese villages, killing 20 people, injuring 40, and spurring thousands of southern Lebanon's residents to flee north.