It happened to be a market day, and—as has occurred many times since in the course of Israeli reprisal raids against Al Fatah camps across the Lebanese frontier—the bombs and rockets hit a school and hospital (which the Tunisians claimed was well marked with a red cross visible from the air), as well as the F.L.N. base. Some eighty people, including a number of women and children, were killed.

XREF: Recalls how wartime targeting of civilian infrastructure recurs across conflicts, from F.L.N. era to present-day Middle East.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 778