Israel released Kuntar in 2008 as part of a prisoner swap with the Lebanese Shi’ite Hezbollah group.

Israeli officials praised the reported killing of Lebanese militant leader Samir Kuntar, who was responsible for murdering the Haran family in 1979 as part of a PLO operation and who later joined Hezbollah following his release from Israeli prison.

Reports that Kuntar was killed emerged Sunday morning after Syrian government loyalists on social media claimed that a number of rockets hit a building in the Damascus district of Jaramana.

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