Kfar Yuval hostage crisis

Kfar Yuval hostage crisis
Part of Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon
Kfar Yuval hostage crisis is located in Northeast Israel
Kfar Yuval hostage crisis
The attack site
Native nameהפיגוע בכפר יובל
LocationKfar Yuval, Israel
Coordinates33°14′48″N 35°35′53″E / 33.24667°N 35.59806°E / 33.24667; 35.59806
Date15 June 1975; 49 years ago (1975-06-15)
Attack type
hostage-taking
Deaths3 Israelis (+ 4 attackers)
Injured3
PerpetratorArab 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.