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Lebanese militant leader killed in Syria, Israeli airstrike and terror attack suspected
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December, 2015
Hezbollah
leader Samir Kuntar, of the Palestine Liberation Front, has
reportedly been killed in a “terror attack” in Damascus, Syrian
state TV said, citing official sources. Hezbollah earlier backed
reports that he had been killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike.
Kuntar
was reportedly killed in the district of Jaramana in the Syrian
capital, Syrian TV dded.
Damascus
radio station Sham FM has reported that Kuntar’s body was recovered
from under the wreckage of the building.
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iad tawil
Most sources just confirmed death of Samir Quntar (including S.N.N), after his brother mourning him on Twitter.
Images from the scene show a collapsed multi-storey residential building, with lots of rubble on the ground. Vehicles parked nearby appear to have been completely destroyed.
Rescue workers have been trying to pull out survivors from under the rubble, according to the footage.
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#VID: #Damascus First footage from Syria media show destroyed building that was hit today in Jaramana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaIGWFVW8g4 …
There
are conflicting reports regarding the course of events. Some say that
there was an Israeli airstrike on the residential area, while other
describe the incident as terrorist mortar shelling.
Reuters
initially cited Syrian state TV as saying that several people had
been injured, after rockets launched by “terrorist
groups” hit
a building in the Jaramana district of Damascus.
Hezbollah
had not immediately confirmed whether the Lebanese Druze Kuntar (also
spelled as Quntar), who is one of the most hated militant leaders in
Israel, was killed or injured in the bombing, or if he was at the
site at all.
In
the meantime, Israeli Construction and Housing Minister Yoav Gallant
welcomed the alleged death of the Lebanese militant leader.
"It
is good that people like Samir Qantar will not be part of our
world," he
told Israel Radio.
He
refused to confirm or deny Israeli involvement in the affair,
however
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Ivan Sidorenko
#Syria #Damascus #Jaramana #جرمانا Photo of the residential building that collapsed after being targeted.
Kuntar
took part in a deadly 1979 PLF raid in Israel that killed four
people. The attack took place in northern Israeli town of Nahariya.
Israel described the attack as an extremely brutal terrorist act,
with Kuntar, then 16, allegedly smashing a rifle butt into the head
of a four-year-old girl.
During
the attack, Kuntar and other Lebanese militants killed two Israeli
policemen and then broke into an apartment building, abducting Danny
Haran, 31, and his four-year-old daughter Einat. Both were then
killed on a nearby beach. Israeli prosecutors presented the deaths of
the two as a brutal execution, while Kuntar vehemently denied killing
the child, and alternative sources claimed the hostages could have
been killed in an exchange of fire with the Israelis.
The
then-teenager was detained and spent 29 years in Israeli prison. In
2008, Kuntar was released in an Israeli-Hezbollah prisoner exchange.
His name caused further controversy as he and other prisoners were
welcomed at home with a celebratory ceremony involving government
officials and the head of state. Kuntar later became known as a
leader of militia based in Hader and a loyalist to the Syrian
government.
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Since
his 2008 release, Israeli media on multiple occasions claimed that
Kuntar had been killed, including during Israeli strikes on Syria.
However, none of the reports had been confirmed.
Meanwhile,
local media reports said that at least two people had been killed in
the attack.
Jewish Feed
BREAKING: Syria state TV confirms 2 killed is Jaramana explosion near Damascus, Some claim it was an IAF strike.
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