Alwaght- The Israeli regime which carried out an act of state terrorism by killing a high ranking member of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah is now scared of the unpredictable response by the resistance.
According to local media reports, Samir Qantar was killed during the Israeli raid which targeted his home in the city of Jaramana located 10 kilometers from the capital in the Rif Dimashq province late on Saturday.
Following the attack, Qantar’s brother wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday that his brother was a martyr without giving more details about his death.
For obvious reasons the Israeli regime can’t dare to officially claim responsibility for the strike which killed the Dean of the freed detainee from the Israeli prisons, however, the Israeli media didn’t hesitate to praise the strike, in an indirect admission that Tel Aviv had carried out the raid.
Hezbollah Media Relations released a statement on Sunday announcing the martyrdom of Qantar who spent 29 years in the Israeli regime’s prisons.
“At 10:15 p.m. on Saturday December 19, Zionist warplanes struck a residential building in Jaramana city in Damascus countryside,” Hezbollah Media Relations said in the statement.
“The Dean of liberated detainee from Israeli prisons, Brother Mujahid Samir Qantar was martyred along with several Syrian citizens in the strike,” the statement added.
Al-Manar correspondent in Damascus reported that the Takfiri insurgents fighting the Syrian government have been operating in Jaramana, noting that they have been repeatedly coordinating with the Israeli enemy, in a clear indication that the latest strike could be coordinated by the Zionist forces and the terrorists.
Qantar was detained by occupation forces in 1979, at the age of 16, for his involvement in a heroic operation against Zionists. He was released along with four other Lebanese prisoners in a 2008 swap deal with Hezbollah in exchange for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers killed during the 2006 war.
Hasan Hijazi, the editor of the Israeli affairs at al-Manar, said that Tel Aviv declined to officially comment on the strike in order to avoid a harsh retaliation by the resistance, noting that the Israeli eye now is on Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah’s response.
"The Israeli commentators said that Tel Aviv is will pass through days of strain, waiting for the stance of (Sayyed) Nasrallah over the nature of Hezbollah's retaliation."