Ex-wife of Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar says his death was justified

Schweitzer, who interviewed Qantar while the Hezbollah commander was in the Israeli prison system, says that the militant was “very polite” but his words were still “poisonous” despite decades of incarceration.

Earlier Monday, crowds at Kantar’s funeral swarmed his coffin, which was draped with a yellow Hezbollah flag.

Kantar was sentenced to five life terms plus 47 years for murdering the father and daughter and an Israeli policeman.

Israel’s security echelon and many rank-and-file citizens are bracing for what many believe is the inevitable retaliation by the Lebanon-based Hizbullah terrorist organization following the assassination of the infamous Samir Kuntar.

Kuntar was convicted of a 1979 attack in which he shot and killed an Israeli man in front of his 4-year-old daughter, then smashed her head against a rock with his rifle butt, tossing her body into the sea.

Nasrallah further emphasized that, regardless of the measures Israel takes to defend itself, and no matter whom it assassinates, Hezbollah’s struggle against it – as part of the overall struggle to liberate Palestine – would not abate. The two countries battled to a stalemate during a monthlong war in 2006 during which Hezbollah fired thousands of rockets into Israel and Israel’s air force destroyed wide areas in Lebanon. The Israeli military declined to comment on the accusation. Hezbollah did not say which role Qantar played in the Syria’s ongoing conflict, in which Hezbollah is fighting on the side of President Bashar al-Assad.

“When Nasrallah announced we would soon see a Syrian resistance just as efficient as the Shiite resistance in southern Lebanon, Kantar was part of the equation”, said Hezbollah expert and professor of sociology Waddah Sharara.