grenade), and his two partners who were 16 and 17 years old, all students of the "Falestin" high school who were recruited by a senior PLO member. Besides murdering the children of the Arroyo family, the attackers also attended in several other attacks and were charged on 18 counts of throwing grenades and for planting explosive devices. Zaki and his accomplices were sentenced by a military court in Gaza to life in prison. Zaki was released from prison in 1985 as part of the Jibril Agreement. As a result of the attack a curfew was imposed on Gaza City and the highway in which the attack took place was closed for a month. The no-intervention policy which was carried out by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip since Israel took over the Gaza Strip in the Six Day War (in part as a result of the IDF efforts to focus on the War of Attrition in the Suez Canal region), changed as a result of this incident. The counter-terrorism campaign was assigned to the Head of IDF's Southern Command, Ariel Sharon. A security fence was established across the Green Line to prevent infiltrations of militants. Large amounts of IDF forces were transferred into the Gaza Strip, which was divided into smaller sections in which the Shaked commando force operated intensively against the active terrorist cells. In addition, the reconnaissance unit Rimon was established and acted under the command of Meir Dagan to provide targeted treatment against terror cells. In July 1971 various IDF forces entered the Jabalya and Al-Shati refugee camps. During this counter terrorism operation over a hundred militants were killed in battle and hundreds of militants were arrested. References External links The World: Drama and Death in the Strip – published on Time Magazine, 9 August 1971 Grenade Tossed Into Car Kills Two Jewish Children – published on the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 3 January 1971 Two Jewish Children Die In Gaza Strip Explosion – published on the Victoria Advocate, 3 January 1971 Israeli murder victims Terrorism deaths in the Gaza Strip Terrorist incidents in Asia in 1971 Terrorist attacks attributed to Palestinian militant groups Israeli terrorism victims Palestinian terrorism Murdered Israeli children Deaths by hand grenade 1971 murders in Israel