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Hezbollah holds massive Beirut funeral for prominent militant

In January, an Israeli air strike in Syria killed six members of Hezbollah, including a commander and the son of the group’s late military chief Imad Moughniyah near the Golan.

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Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a televised speech Monday evening, said the group will exact revenge but did not make any specific threats.


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The address came after a large funeral for Qantar in Beirut, attended by thousands of people chanting “death to Israel”.


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Samir Kuntar was imprisoned after he and three others from the Palestine Liberation Front infiltrated Nahariya by sea in April 1979 and broke into the apartment of the Haran family, where they kidnapped the father, Danny, and his four-year-old daughter Einat. “We will exercise this right, God willing”.

“If the Israelis imagine that by targeting Samir Kantar they have closed an account, they are very wrong because they know and will know that they have opened accounts that are not closed with a treacherous missile”, senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine said at the funeral.

A spokesman for the Syrian rebel group, which follows the operating room of FSA in Damascus and its suburbs, said “we deny what Hezbollah said of a Zionist aircraft attack” in reference to Israel.

In the wake of Kantar’s death, Israel and Lebanon briefly traded fire.

Shortly after Kantar’s release from an Israeli prison in 2008, however, a top Israeli security official had warned he was a “target”. But Syrian state media said he was involved in a major offensive earlier this year in Quneitra, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

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“When Nasrallah announced we would soon see a Syrian resistance just as efficient as the Shiite resistance in southern Lebanon, Kantar was part of the equation”, said Hezbollah expert and professor of sociology Waddah Sharara.

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