HAMMAM CHOTT, Tunisia (AP) — Jamel Bahrini remembers the smell of dust and blood that clung to the air when he arrived at the scene of the strike in Tunisia ‘s capital 40 years ago, among hundreds of other first responders.

Israeli warplanes had just struck the Palestine Liberation Organization’s headquarters outside Tunis, killing dozens of people in Israel’s longest-range airstrike at that time.

Neighbors and families rushed into the streets, digging through rubble with their bare hands, searching for survivors.

“On that tree, I found half the body of a martyr, still hanging and his blood still flowing,” Bahrini, now 62, told The Associated Press as he walked through part of the now abandoned bomb site on Wednesday.

Bahrini was among the Tunisians at a recent commemoration ceremony w

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