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Samir Kuntar, is a lebaneese who has been convicted of murder and terrorism by Israel and is held in Israeli jail since his conviction in 1979 on four times life sentence for killing 2 israeli civilians and two israeli policemen.
Attack into Israel From Sothern Lebanon
On April 22, 1979, Samir Kuntar led a unit of four inflatrators who infiltrated via Israeli waters from Lebanon and beached their rubber dinghy in the coastal town of Nahariya. The four kill a policeman who ran into them and were able to break into the apartment of the Haran family before police reineforcment had arived. The unit took 28-year-old Danny Haran hostage along with his four-year-old daughter Einat. The wife, Smadar Haran, was able to hide in the attic with her two-year-old daughter Yael, tried desperately to keep the girl quiet and ended up suffocating her.
Shootout and capture by Israel
After holding to the hostages, a shootout with Israeli policemen and soldiers erupted. Samir Kuntar killed the father and the four-year-old girl in cold blood, a policeman and two of Samir Kuntar unit were killed. Kuntar and the 4th participant in the shootout were captured. The latter, Ahmed Abarrass, has long been freed by Israel in the 1986 Ahmed Jibril prisoner deal in return for three Israeli soldiers.
Exhange for Ron Arad
Hezbulla has thought the release of Samir Kuntar. To that end Hezbulla promised Israel to provide detail about the missing navigator who was held for several years by Hezbulla but since no such swap ever took place israel continue to hold the convict Kuntar.