Operation Karameh: Israeli Orders, Civilian Warnings, and the Targeting of Fatah Forces in 1968 Historical analysis based on contemporary reporting, later historical works, and archival sources. Introduction The Israeli operation against Karameh in Jordan on March 21, 1968, followed a period of escalating Arab terror attacks across the Jordan River and, most immediately, the March 18 destruction of an Israeli school bus full of children by a land mine. Two people were killed and 28 were wounded. Three days later, Israeli forces crossed the Jordan River and attacked the Arab Palestinian terror Fatah infrastructure centered in the Jordanian town...