Cemetary
Terror Attack Place:
Kvish HaChof
Commemoration Site:
Haifa
Area:
Haifa Area
Type:
Cemetery
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On Saturday afternoon March 11th 1978 a group of eleven terrorists landed on Israel beaches. In Maagan Michael they found a photographer, they queried her on the place, killed her and went to the nearby main road.
They stopped a taxi, took the passengers hostage and went to Tel Aviv with two terrorists. Then they stopped a bus who was returning from a trip and started going to Tel aviv, during the drive they shot and threw grenades on bypassing cars killing four people.
Near Hadera the bus and taxi met and the taxi passengers were forced into the bus which continued south. The terrorists identified another bus and forced it to stop, its passengers were forced on the bus that continued going south.
Near Gelilot junction the police shot the bus tires and forced it to stop.
The terrorists exploded the bus while the passengers on board, the bus became a huge fire trap.
35 Children and adults were killed that day.
In Haifa cemetary (Tamar gate) are burried seventeen of the 35 killed that day.