In 1974 , 102 Israeli Jewish school children from Safed on a school trip were taken hostage by a Palestinian militant group Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) while sleeping in a school in Maalot . In what became known as the Ma'alot massacre , 22 of these school children were among those killed by the hostage takers after the school had been raided by a special forces unit of the Israel Defense Forces
Ma'alot massacre
Ma'alot massacre
Safed