On 22 April 1979 , Samir Kuntar and three other members of the Palestine Liberation Front , a sometimes faction of the PLO , landed in Nahariya , Israel from Tyre , Lebanon by boat . After killing a police officer , who had discovered their presence , they took a father and his daughter hostage in an apartment building . After fleeing with the hostages from police back to the beach , a shootout killed one policeman and two of the militants . Kuntar then executed the hostages before he and the remaining invader were captured
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1979 Nahariya attack
Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon