Hezbollah terrorist Samir Kuntar, famous for crushing the skull of a 4 year-old Israeli girl, was honored by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009 in Tehran.
Kuntar was released from prison that year in exchange for the remains of two kidnapped and murdered Israeli soldiers.
Kuntar holds his trophy next to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the ceremony today. (ISNA)
Kuntar called for the destruction of Israel at the martyr’s ceremony in Tehran where he was honored by the Iranian regime.
Today Kuntar was killed in Damascus in a suspected Israeli airstrike.
The New York Times reported:
A Hezbollah commander whom Israel reluctantly released in 2008 — nearly 30 years after he took part in a notorious terrorist attack — was killed in an airstrike in Syria, Hezbollah and his family said on Sunday.
The commander, Samir Kuntar, was freed as part of an exchange that returned the bodies of two soldiers to Israel. He had served nearly three decades in prison for his role in the 1979 killings of a police officer, a civilian and his daughter in an Israeli coastal town near the Lebanese border. The civilian’s wife accidentally smothered their other daughter while trying to quiet her.
Mr. Kuntar died when missiles slammed into a residential building in a crowded neighborhood of Damascus called Jaramana on Saturday night. A man who said he had seen the aftermath of the attack reported that a five-story building had been completely destroyed.
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Hezbollah, a Shiite militia and political movement, swiftly blamed Israel for the assault, but Israeli officials had no comment.
