Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
1974–1980s: Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon
Month, DayEvent(s)

Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Section Title: 1974–1980s: Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon
Table Section Text: Month, DayEvent(s)

Month, Day	Event(s)

1974

April 11	Kiryat Shmona massacre. The PFLP–GC militia crossed the border into Israel from Lebanon, entered an apartment building and killed all 18 residents.

May 15	Ma'alot massacre. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine attacked a van killing two Israeli Arab women, entered an apartment and killed a family, and took over a local school and held 115 students and teachers hostage.

October 14	The PLO was recognized by the UN General Assembly as the representative of the Palestinian people and was granted the right to participate in the deliberations on Palestine.

October 26–29	The Arab League recognized the PLO as sole representative of the Palestinians.

November 13	Yasser Arafat addressed the United Nations General Assembly.

November 22	The United Nations General Assembly adopts Resolution 3236, which recognizes Palestinians right to self-determination, officiates the U.N.'s contact with the Palestine Liberation Organization, and added the "Question of Palestine" to the U.N.

1975

March 4	Savoy Operation. Eight Palestinian terrorists in two teams landed by boat in Tel Aviv.

July 4	A "refrigerator bomb" in Jerusalem killed 15 Israelis and wounded 77.

November 10	United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, adopted by a vote of 72 to 35 with 32 abstentions, "determines that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination".

November 13	An explosive charge went off near Cafe Naveh on Jaffa Road, near the pedestrian mall. Seven Israeli civilians killed and 45 injured.

1976

May 3	Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem bombed by Palestinian terrorists. 33 civilians injured.

July 4	Operation "Entebbe". Air France Flight 139, originating in Tel Aviv, took off from Athens, Greece, heading for Paris.

1977

January 3	Mahmud Salih, PLO representative in Paris and manager of an Arab bookshop, killed by Israeli agents.

1978

January 4	Sa'id Hammami, PLO representative in London and well-known dove, killed by an Abu Nidal gunman.

March 11	Coastal Road massacre. Fatah Palestinians killed an American photographer, hijacked a load bus and killed 38 more Israelis, including 13 children, and wounded 76.

March 14	Operation "Litani". Israel, in alliance with the mostly Christian South Lebanon Army, launched a limited-scope invasion of Lebanon and attempted to push Palestinian militant groups away from the Israel border.

June 15	Ali Yassin, PLO representative in Kuwait, killed by a member of the Abu Nidal group.

August 5	Yizz al-Din Qalaq, PLO representative in Paris and well-known dove, killed by an Abu Nidal gunman.

September 17	Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signed the Camp David Accord, in which Israel agreed to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula in exchange for peace and a framework for future negotiation over the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

1979

January 22	Ali Hassan Salameh, head of Yasser Arafat's security unit Force 17, killed by an Israeli car bomb in Beirut.

March 14	An Israeli was killed and 13 people injured when an explosive charge blew up in a trash can in Zion Square, Jerusalem.

March 26	Israel–Egypt Peace Treaty. Egypt became the first Arab country to recognize Israel officially.

April 22	Samir Kuntar, a PLO operative, killed four Israelis in Nahariya, including two girls aged four and two.

1981

June 1	Na'im Khudr, PLO representative in Brussels and well-known dove, killed by an Abu Nidal gunman.

July 17	Israel bombed the PLO headquarters in a civilian area of Beirut, causing over 300 civilian deaths. The United States brokered a fragile cease-fire.

August 29	Abu Nidal terrorists attacked Vienna's Stadttempel, the Austrian capital's principal synagogue.

October 9	Majid Abu Sharar, a prominent member of Fatah, killed by an Israeli bomb in Rome.

October 20	A truck bomb exploded in Antwerp, Belgium outside a Portuguese Jewish synagogue.

1982

May 15	Israel, allied with Lebanese Christians, launched Operation "Peace for Galilee", an invasion of southern Lebanon against PLO, Syrian and Muslim Lebanese forces, claiming its purpose was to remove PLO forces camped there after several PLO cease-fire violations.

September	Sabra and Shatila massacre. Lebanese Phalangists massacred between 762 and 3,500 civilians, mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shiites, in Sabra and the Shatila refugee camp.

9 October 1982	Great Synagogue of Rome attack.The 1982 Great Synagogue of Rome attack, which was carried out by armed Palestinian militants at the entrance to the Great Synagogue of Rome, took place on 9 October 1982 at 11:55 a.m.

Sentence(s)

On November 10th, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 3379 by a vote of 72 to 35 with 32 abstentions that "determines that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination".

final_sentence: On November 10th, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 3379 by a vote of 72 to 35 with 32 abstentions that "determines that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination".