Kfar Yuval hostage crisis | |
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Part of Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon | |
Native name | הפיגוע בכפר יובל |
Location | Kfar Yuval, Israel |
Coordinates | 33°14′48″N 35°35′53″E / 33.24667°N 35.59806°E |
Date | 15 June 1975 |
Attack type | hostage-taking |
Deaths | 3 Israelis (+ 4 attackers) |
Injured | 3 |
Perpetrator | Arab Liberation Front claimed responsibility |
No. of participants | 4 |
The Kfar Yuval hostage crisis, which took place during 15 June 1975, was a raid by a squad of Palestinian militants belonging to the Arab Liberation Front on the Israeli moshav of Kfar Yuval in which the militants took residents as hostages and attempted to bargain for the release of terrorists held in Israeli prisons. One person was killed during the takeover.
An IDF special unit freed the hostages and killed the four militants the same day. During the operation, an IDF soldier was killed, and his wife, one of the hostages, was fatally wounded.