Israeli Response
The next day Israel Defence Force planes bombed offices and training bases of the DFLP and PFLP. According to a BBC report, the bombing inflicted damage in seven Palestinian refugee camps and villages in southern Lebanon killing at least 27 people and leaving 138 injured.
After an investigation Attorney General Meir Shamgar decided that the three teachers who escaped and abandoned their students had done no wrong. Parents of the victims angrily rejected the report.
The massacre led to the creation of the Yamam special police unit.
Amos Horev, President of Haifa's Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, headed a Commission of Inquiry in May 1975 that investigated the events of the massacre. His Commission Report listed a number of mistakes that were the responsibility of the Israeli political or security echelons, as well as recommendations.
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