About 40% of the town's residents left after the massacre. 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. More attacks on northern Israel followed by Palestinian militants, including the
Ma'alot massacre the same year, the
Savoy Hotel attack and
Kfar Yuval hostage crisis in 1975, and multiple airplane hijacking acts, the most notable being
Entebbe Operation in 1976. According to
The Times of Israel, by 2023, almost 50 years after the attack, it had largely faded from Israeli consciousness. That year, Lisa Peretz, Robby Elmaliah and Ilanit Baumann premiered their film "A Haunted Home" about the events and the lasting trauma on residents of Kiryat Shmona at the
Jerusalem Film Festival. According to survivors interviewed by the filmmakers, the apparent lack of interest in preserving the memory of the incident is because the victims were mostly poor
Mizrahi Jews who lived in an out-of-the-way location. Another reason was that survivors were too traumatized to speak publicly about the events. Elmaliah speculated: "I think one of the reasons why this event isn’t covered — and not just not covered, but barred, hidden… I think it’s mostly because there is no story of bravery here. There are no heroes in this story… there’s nobody who saved anybody. Ultimately, 18 people were killed, and the soldiers entered the building at the end." ==See also==