[2] In the early morning on 11 April 1974, three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command crossed the border from Lebanon into Israel.

They first entered the Janusz Korczak elementary school, but the classrooms were empty due to Jewish holiday of Passover.

[3] According to Israeli police, the attacks were equipped with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and threw children from the top floor of the building.

[2] A splinter Palestinian group claimed credit for what it called a "suicide attack" via a telephone statement to the media.

François Mitterrand sent a condolence telegram to Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir for the "criminal aggression which once again has struck innocent civilian victims.

[3] According to survivors interviewed by the filmmakers, the apparent lack of interest in preserving the memory of the incident is because the victims were mostly poor Mizrahi Jews who lived in an out-of-the-way location.