Claim: The Kiryat Shmona Massacre of 1974 occurred when three Palestinian assailants went on a shooting spree in Israel; it was soon followed by the Ma'alot massacre of 1974, a Palestinian terror attack which involved a two-day hostage-taking, ending in 25 of the hostages dead.
Evidence: The Kiryat Shmona massacre was an attack by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command on civilians in the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona on 11 April 1974. The Ma'alot massacre was a Palestinian terrorist attack that occurred in May 1974 and involved a two-day hostage-taking of 115 Israeli people which ended in the murders of over 25 hostages. Shooting spree More attacks on northern Israel followed by Palestinian militants, including the Ma'alot massacre the same year, the Savoy Hotel Attack and Kfar Yuval hostage crisis in 1975, and multiple airplane hijacking acts, the most notable being Entebbe Operation in 1976.