Israel threatens to assassinate Kuntar only one day after his release

[ 17/07/2008 - 10:39 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation government is threatening to assassinate the Lebanese ex-prisoner Samir Al-Kuntar only one day after his release from its jails in a prisoners' swap deal with the Lebanese Hizbullah party, Hebrew press revealed.

Hebrew daily Yediot Ahtonot quoted an unidentified "senior Israeli official" as saying on Thursday that Kuntar, who was released yesterday in a swap deal with Hizbulalh had turned into a man sentenced to capital punishment.

"Israel will reach Kuntar and liquidate him", he told the paper, stressing that the Israeli intelligence apparatuses would not rest until Kuntar was assassinated.

He said that after Kuntar was released from jail there was no "obligation on our part towards him".

The paper quoted other sources as advising Kuntar not to get out of his home publicly because for people like him "it is not advisable to spend much time walking around in broad daylight".

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