Alwaght-A Zionist politician has admitted that the Israeli regime assassinated senior Hezbollah Commander Samir Qantar in Syria last December.
Omer Bar-Lev, a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, told Times of Israel online newspaper on Saturday that Qantar’s killing “was certainly a message to [Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan] Nasrallah,” adding that Israeli officials regard the Hezbollah chief as “the enemy.”
The Zionist legislator further stated that the killing of Qantar was a great “achievement” for the Israeli regime. Bar-Lev also stated that Seyyed Nasrallah should be targeted “at the first opportunity, just like Samir Qantar.”
After Qantar’s assasination, Nasrallah said, "We reserve the right to respond to this assassination at the time and place of our choosing. Those of us in Hezbollah will exercise that right."
“We have no doubt or question that Israel is the one which assassinated Samir Qantar, its planes fired precise missiles on an apartment (he was in),” Hezbollah secretary general noted.
Qantar was killed during a raid that targeted his home in the southern Syrian city of Jaramana, located 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) southeast of the Syrian capital, Damascus, early on December 20, 2015.
He was released from an Israeli prison during a prisoner swap between Hezbollah and Israel in 2008 after serving 29 years in detention.
