Hezbollah's field commander killed in Israeli air raid
Date
12/20/2015 4:21:24 AM
(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) BEIRUT Dec 20 (KUNA) -- Hezbollah's field commander Samir Al-Kuntar has been killed in an Israeli air strike in Syria the organization said early on Sunday.
Al-Kuntar was killed along with a number of Syrians in the Israeli air attack on a residential building in Jermana on Damascus' outskirts late on Saturday Hezbollah said in a statement.
Al-Kuntar had been held prisoner by Israel for years before he was set free in 2008 in a prisoner swap between Tel Aviv and the Lebanese organization. Hezbollah in the exchange handed over corpses of two Israeli soldiers who had been nabbed by the group in summer of 2006. The soldiers' abduction had led to outbreak of wide-scale hostilities between the movement and the Israeli forces.
Al-Kuntar after his release declared joining Hezbollah's ranks. In recent years he was engaged in the fight against Syrian opposition forces in Syria.
The slain commander had languished for 28 years behind iron bars in Israel. The Israelis had caught him after his futile bid to assassinate an Israeli nuclear scientist. He was sentenced by an Israeli court in 1980 to prison for life. (end) wsm.rk
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