After Black September , the PLO and its offshoots waged an international campaign against Israelis . Notable events were the Munich Olympics massacre ( 1972 ) , the hijacking of several civilian airliners ( some were thwarted , see for example : Entebbe Operation ) , the Savoy Hotel attack , the Zion Square explosive refrigerator and the Coastal Road massacre . During the 1970s and the early 1980s , Israel suffered attacks from PLO bases in Lebanon , such as the Avivim school bus massacre in 1970 , the Maalot massacre in 1974 ( where Palestinian militants massacred 21 school children ) and the Nahariya attack led by Samir Kuntar in 1979 , as well as a terrorist bombing by Ziad Abu Ein that killed two Israeli 16-year-olds and left 36 other youths wounded during the Lag BaOmer cerebration in Tiberias . Following the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon , called " Operation Peace for Galilee " by the IDF , and the exile of the PLO to Tunis , Israel had a relatively quiet decade
Nahariya attack
1979 Nahariya attack
Palestinian political violence