Alwaght- Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement on Monday held a massive funeral for martyr Samir Qantar and vowed it would retaliate for top resistance commander killed in an Israeli regime air strike in Syria.
Thousands of people chanted "death to
Israel" as Hezbollah fighters in military uniforms carried Qantar's
coffin, which was wrapped by the movement’s yellow flag, to a Muslim cemetery
in south Beirut where he was laid to rest. The head of Hezbollah Executive
Council, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, led the funeral prayers shared by a number
of the party's commanders and MPs at Hawraa Zainab Paradise in the area of
Ghobiery where martyr Qantar was laid to rest.
Sayyed Safieddine delivered a speech in which his eminence asserted that the
Israeli enemy will pay the price of its crime, hailing the sublime traits that
characterized martyr Samir Kuntar throughout his life in its various domains.
Israeli warplanes raided a residential building in the Syrian city of Jaramana late Saturday, killing martyr Qantar.
Sources said the Israeli warplanes struck the
building with four long-range missiles, causing complete destruction of the
building and partial damage to the surrounding structures.
Qantar was detained by Israeli regime 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.
"We have no doubt or question that Israel is the one which assassinated Samir Qantar, its planes fired precision missiles on a residential apartment (he was in)," Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech aired on al-Manar television channel.
"Samir is one of us, a commander of our resistance and it is our right to retaliate for his assassination in the place, time and way we see appropriate," Sayyed Nasrallah said. "We will exercise this right, God willing. Everyone should bear this mind."
