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Hezbollah vows to revenge assassination of its operative

Xinhua, December 22, 2015 Adjust font size:

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah vowed Monday that his party will retaliate to the assassination of its top operative Samir al-Quntar, who was killed in Jaramana, a Damascus neighborhood Saturday night.

"The martyr Samir al-Quntar is one of us and the Israelis killed him deliberately. It is our right to retaliate to his assassination at the appropriate time and place and in the appropriate method, and we will practice this right' Nasrallah pledged.

Dismissing a claim of responsibility by a Free Syrian Army faction, Hezbollah's chief said his party "has no doubt that the Israeli enemy was behind the assassination in a blatant military operation."

Nasrallah stressed "Israeli warplanes fired guided missiles at the building."

The Hezbollah Chief pointed that Quntar "had always been a target for Israel. The threats preceded the issue of the military resistance in the Golan."

An alleged Free Syrian Army faction calling itself the "Houran Brigade" claimed responsibility for Quntar's assassination in a YouTube video.

Israel for its part has welcomed news of Quntar's death without claiming responsibility for the air strike that killed him. Endit