Murder of the Aroyo children

The attack was a turning point in the way Israel began relating towards terrorist threats originating from the Gaza Strip.

The Aroyo family (Marco and Clare) had moved in the 1930s from Bulgaria to Malta, where they owned a textile shop in Valletta ("Swiss House").

The mother, Preeti Aroyo, was badly injured and needed lengthy rehabilitation and remained disabled from the incident.

Robert Aroyo, who was slightly wounded in the attack managed to turn the car around and reach an IDF checkpoint, before collapsing.

Israeli security forces caught the perpetrators – 15-year-old Mohammad Suleiman Al Zaki who originated from the Shuja'iyya neighborhood (who threw the grenade), and his two partners who were 16 and 17 years old, all students of the "Falestin" high school who were recruited by a senior PLO member.

The no-intervention policy which was carried out by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip since Israel took over the Gaza Strip in the Six Day War (in part as a result of the IDF efforts to focus on the War of Attrition in the Suez Canal region), changed as a result of this incident.