On that fateful day in April 1979, Kantar and three other militants secretly sailed from Lebanon to Israel on a rubber boat and landed in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya where they shot dead an Israeli police officer then broke into the Haran family’s apartment.
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Kuntar was convicted by an Israeli court of killing a 4-year-old girl and her father after infiltrating from Lebanon by sea in a four-man cell.
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Central Lebanese militant Samir Qantar has been killed in a rocket strike near the Syrian capital Damascus, global media quote Hezbollah saying.
“And if he is neutralised by someone, it’s good news for the state of Israel”, said Amidror, but added that he did not know whether his country was responsible for his death.
Hezbollah and Damascus have accused Israel of providing medical and material support to Syrian rebels, including Al Qaeda-affiliated fighters.
The airstrike showed Israel’s continued commitment to go to great lengths to eliminate their enemies and its willingness to go it alone in bombing pro-government targets in Syria.
“Justice has been done”, Smadar Haran, the only family member to survive the 1979 attack, told Israeli media Sunday.
The deal with Hezbollah that led to Kuntar’s release stirred an anguished debate in Israel, especially after he received a hero’s welcome in Beirut that included a red carpet and praise from Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, Israeli aircraft had tried but failed several times in the past to hit Kantar inside Syria.
Al Mayadeen, the Lebanese television station said that Farhan al-Shaalan, a senior Hezbollah commander, was also killed in the air raid, together with an aide to Kantar. While other reports claim that the building was hit with four missiles launched by two Israeli warplanes. Kuntar was with a group of commanders from various groups that were reportedly planning attacks on Israel.
On Sunday night, according to UNIFIL, the United Nations peacekeeping force along the Lebanese-Israeli border, there was an exchange of fire that appeared to have concluded without casualties or escalation – suggesting that both sides had carried out essentially symbolic strikes in their customary effort to avoid another war. In 2003 Israeli negotiated with Hezbollah the release of an Israeli businessman and the bodies of three soldiers on the condition that Kuntar be released.
PLF is just one such organization in Palestine that has carried out several attacks in Israel and other regions for past many years.
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There was no direct confirmation from Israel, which generally refrains from commenting on airstrikes inside Syria.
