Topic: Samir Kuntar
Samir Kuntar was convicted for his involvement in a 1979 Hezbollah attack that resulted in the murders of an Israeli man and his young daughters. Sentenced to four life sentences, Kuntar, originally from Lebanon , had been in prison in Israel since the ...
Israel's cabinet yesterday gave final approval for a prisoner swap today in which it will give up a notorious Lebanese militant in return for two Israeli soldiers who are presumed dead.The capture of the soldiers, Eldad Regev, 27, and Ehud ...
We need to be strong and accept it for better or for worse," Regev's father, Zvi, said yesterday.It was two years ago this month when the Lebanese militant group Hizbullah struck, firing several rockets and ambushing a military Humvee patrolling ...
Israel's government press office cut all contacts with pan-Arab Al-Jazeera television on Wednesday, accusing its Beirut bureau of throwing a party for a freed Lebanese militant who committed a triple murder in Israel.Press office director Daniel Seaman told AFP the ...
Samir KuntarA Lebanese Druze, Kuntar was 17 in 1979 when he took part in a raid on the Israeli coastal town of Nahariya on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Front. (IB)Dalal al-MughrabiAs an 18-year-old Palestinian girl from Lebanon, she led a ...
Hamas views an upcoming Israeli-Hezbollah prisoner swap as a precedent-setting deal that could spring even more Palestinian terrorists out of Israeli jails, a wire report said on Monday.. In exchange, Israel has agreed to release four Hezbollah fighters, dozens of bodies of ...
