Brother mourns Qantar,who was part of a prisoner swap between Lebanon and Israel in 2008, as Syrian regime loyalists blame Israel for death Samir Qantar, and a Lebanese militant leader who spent nearly three decades in an Israeli prison after being convicted of carrying out one of the most notorious attacks in Israeli history,has been killed in a rocket attack on a building in the Syrian capital, Damascus.
Qantar, or a tall-profile figure in Hezbollah,was killed alongside eight others after multiple rocket attacks on a building in the suburb of Jaramana. The militant Shia group confirmed his death in a statement sent to the Guardian. It called him “our martyr” and blamed Israel for the killing.
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Source: theguardian.com