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The Coastal Road massacre of 1978 was an attack involving the hijacking of a bus on Israel's Coastal Highway in which 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children, were killed, and 71 were wounded. The attack was planned by Abu Jihad and carried out by the PLO faction Fatah. The plan was to seize a luxury hotel in Tel Aviv and take tourists and foreign ambassadors hostage in order to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. According to a Fatah commander who had helped to plan the attack, the timing was aimed at scuttling the Israeli-Egyptian peace talks between Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat and damaging tourism in Israel.

Latitude: 32° 08' 31.58" N
Longitude: 34° 48' 6.80" E

Nearest city to this article: Ramat HaSharon

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