Israel anklagas för dödlig raketattack i Syrien

Samir Kuntar (Arabic: سمير القنطار‎, also transcribed Sameer, Kantar, Quntar, Qantar;) is a Lebanese Druze member of the Palestine Liberation Front who was convicted of murder. On April 22, 1979, at the age of 16, he participated in the murder of an Israeli policeman and the attempted kidnapping of an Israeli family in Nahariya that resulted in the deaths of four Israelis and two of his fellow kidnappers. Kuntar and his team broke into an apartment building and kidnapped a father, 31-year-old Danny Haran, and his 4-year-old daughter, Einat, taking them to a nearby beach and killing them. In Israel, Kuntar is considered the perpetrator of one of the most brutal terrorist attacks in the country's history. Newsweek states that the details of Kuntar's attack are "so sickening they give pause even to some of Israel's enemies." The Jerusalem Post states that "exactly how popular Kuntar is in Lebanon is up for some debate." In November 2008, Syrian president Bashar Assad presented Kuntar with a Syrian medal and in early 2009 he was honored by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. On 8 September 2015, the United States Department of State designated him as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224. He was killed by the Israeli air force in Damascus on December 19th 2015.