Nasrallah says retaliation for Kuntar assassination forthcoming
- 9 years ago
"The response for the assassination of al-Kuntar is coming, there's no doubt.
The Israelis have a reason to be worried, in the border area and outside it (abroad).
The scary statements we've heard in the past few days won't help."
That's what Hezbollah Secretay General Hassan Nasrallah said Sunday, during a speech marking one week after the assassination of leading member Samir Kuntar in Syria.
Kuntar, who murdered several members of the Israeli Haran family in a 1979 terror attack, was an Israeli prisoner until he was freed in the 2008 Hezbollah-Israel prisoner exchange, in return for the bodies of Israeli soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser.
The Arab world in general, and Hezbollah in particular, have attributed his assassination via air strike to Israel, even though the country has not admitted any responsibility – unlike in prior cases such as the assassination of Hezbollah member Jihad Mughniyeh in early 2015.
The Israelis have a reason to be worried, in the border area and outside it (abroad).
The scary statements we've heard in the past few days won't help."
That's what Hezbollah Secretay General Hassan Nasrallah said Sunday, during a speech marking one week after the assassination of leading member Samir Kuntar in Syria.
Kuntar, who murdered several members of the Israeli Haran family in a 1979 terror attack, was an Israeli prisoner until he was freed in the 2008 Hezbollah-Israel prisoner exchange, in return for the bodies of Israeli soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser.
The Arab world in general, and Hezbollah in particular, have attributed his assassination via air strike to Israel, even though the country has not admitted any responsibility – unlike in prior cases such as the assassination of Hezbollah member Jihad Mughniyeh in early 2015.