The Kiryat Shmona massacre Another 16 were wounded.
A splinter Palestinian group claimed credit for what it called a "suicide attack" via a telephone statement to the media. The group claimed the goal of the attack was the release of 100 fighters from Israeli prisons.
On 13 April, Israeli forces carried out retaliatory raids in Lebanon, hours after the victims were buried. Only after Israel's reprisal raid in southern Lebanon did France simultaneously condemn the massacre.