Nasrallah Says Hizbullah to Avenge Quntar at 'Appropriate Time, Place'
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah vowed Monday that his group will retaliate to the assassination of its top operative Samir al-Quntar “at the appropriate time and place and in the appropriate method.”
“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, Hizbullah's chief said his group “has no doubt that the Israeli enemy was behind the assassination in a blatant military operation.”
“Israeli warplanes fired guided missiles at the building,” he noted.
Whether Israeli jets violated Syrian airspace to carry out the operation or fired missiles from the occupied Golan was "a technicality," Nasrallah noted.
The 54-year-old was killed on Saturday night "when the Zionist enemy planes bombed the building where he lived in Jaramana," southeast of Damascus, Hizbullah had said in a statement that followed the operation.
“The brother Samir had always been a target for Israel. The threats preceded the issue of the military resistance in the Golan,” Nasrallah noted.
Slamming what he described as “desperate attempts by some media outlets which have claimed that Syrian armed groups were behind the assassination,” Nasrallah said Hizbullah “clearly and openly accuses the Zionist enemy of assassinating Samir al-Quntar.”
Earlier in the day, an alleged FSA faction calling itself the Houran Knights Brigade claimed responsibility for Quntar's assassination in a YouTube video.
Israel has welcomed news of Quntar's death without claiming responsibility for the air strike that killed him. Shortly after Quntar's release from an Israeli prison in 2008, however, a top Israeli security official had warned he was a "target."
Hizbullah played a key role in Quntar's release after he had spent 30 years in Israeli jails, becoming known as the longest-serving Arab prisoner.
Quntar was still a teenager when he and three other members of the Palestine Liberation Front infiltrated the Israeli village of Nahariya by sea from Lebanon in 1979. According to Israel's judiciary, the militants killed three Israelis, including a four-year-old girl. Quntar had however denied responsibility for the girl's death, saying she was killed in the crossfire.
Shortly after his release, Quntar joined Hizbullah. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said he became "head of the Syrian resistance for the liberation of the Golan," a group launched two years ago by Hizbullah in the region, most of which Israel seized in the 1967 Middle East war.
Separately, Nasrallah noted that the latest U.S. sanctions on Hizbullah are based on “unjust and false accusations,” pointing out that the party is “not concerned with offering a proof of its innocence.”
He described the measures as a “political accusation aimed at tarnishing the image of Hizbullah in the minds of the peoples of the world and the region.”
“We do not have funds in any bank in the world … or in Lebanese banks and the central bank and the directors of banks must not panic,” Nasrallah said.
Calling on the Lebanese state and government to “shoulder the responsibility of protecting Lebanese citizens and businessmen,” Hizbullah's chief said “any accusation must be referred to the Lebanese judiciary.”
“Some banking measures have started in the country and I warn against bowing to the American will,” he added.
On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously to impose tough new sanctions on banks that knowingly do business with Hizbullah.
The U.S. bill requires the Obama administration to present to Congress a series of reports highlighting “the group's narcotics trafficking, transnational crime, and operations of international groups linked to Hizbullah, especially in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.”
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21 December 2015, 21:19
Nasrallah: The State and the government must the shoulder the responsibility of protecting Lebanese citizens and businessmen … Any accusation must be referred to the Lebanese judiciary. Some banking measures have started in the country and I warn against bowing to the American will.
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21 December 2015, 21:15
Nasrallah: We do not have funds in any bank in the world or in Lebanese banks and the central bank and the directors of banks must not panic.
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21 December 2015, 21:11
Nasrallah described the U.S. sanctions as a “political accusation aimed at tarnishing the image of Hizbullah in the minds of the peoples of the world and the region.”
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21 December 2015, 21:09
Nasrallah said the latest U.S. sanctions are based on “unjust and false accusations,” noting that the party is “not concerned with offering a proof of its innocence.”
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21 December 2015, 21:05
Nasrallah: It is our right to retaliate to Quntar's assassination at the appropriate time and place and in the appropriate way and we will practice this right.
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21 December 2015, 20:46
Nasrallah: We clearly and openly accuse the Zionist enemy of assassinating Samir al-Quntar.
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21 December 2015, 20:45
Nasrallah: We have witnessed desperate attempts by some media outlets, which have claimed that Syrian armed groups were behind the assassination.
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21 December 2015, 20:45
Nasrallah: The threats preceded the issue of the military resistance in the Golan.
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21 December 2015, 20:44
Nasrallah: The brother Samir had always been a target for Israel.
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21 December 2015, 20:42
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a televised speech on Samir al-Quntar's assassination: We have no doubt that the Israeli enemy was behind the assassination in a blatant military operation.
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21 December 2015, 20:41
Nasrallah: Israeli warplanes fired guided missiles at the building.
21 December 2015, 20:59
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Samir Qantar was a terrorist by any standards. He was killed in Syria fighting for the regime and killing Syrian people. He did not die for Palestine or liberating shebaa farms. Even his ex-wife denounced his role in Syria and referred to him as a terrorist.
21 December 2015, 20:59
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The question is: How did they find him? is it the same people who found Imad Moughnieh? Until you find out, there will be more successful targets to whoever is doing this! Likely the Zionist regime
21 December 2015, 22:22
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The bigger question is not how did they find him, the bigger question is if Israel has a mole who is giving them intelligence on where hizbollah operatives are hiding, surely, they know exactly where Nasrallah himself is hiding.... so back to my question - why do they not go after the head of the snake?
22 December 2015, 11:43
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et pourtant ce "minable" vous met une trempe a chaque fois que vous vous pensez capables de vous mesurer a lui. ca en dit long sur vous.
21 December 2015, 21:58
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Nasrallah is like a bot, same automatic sentences and words all the time. I wonder if he is real or if he is a computer program.
21 December 2015, 22:01
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Nasrallah: We do not have funds in any bank in the world or in Lebanese banks and the central bank and the directors of banks must not panic.
So why are you concerned if you have no funds in any bank....? Sure, we believe you... you don't have any funds in any Lebanese bank. It's all in suitcases direct from Iran.
22 December 2015, 00:30
710
Look at the conversation amongst all you losers LOL... Hey M14ers ur all speaking to each other and NO ONE CARES! :) Dont have an anurism bye bye!
22 December 2015, 11:02
105
And thank you for this great intervention 4.0! You definitely elevate the debate. Thank you!! Ahhhh... we needed a bit of m8 brains, and we got some ;)
22 December 2015, 11:48
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what "debate" !? you guys are here puking out your hatred and frustrations, and as theresistance4.0 said, NO ONE CARES! we're just watching you and laughing
22 December 2015, 13:41
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loool is that how you elevate the debate? now i understand! hahahaha
22 December 2015, 01:32
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Fact: Ebola has divided the country
Fact: Ebola has destroyed the living together
Fact: Ebola has destroyed the economy
Fact: Ebola has destroyed National Unity
Fact: Ebola has spread hatred among us
Fact: Ebola is destroying the Institutions and Constitution.
Fact : Ebola is working at destroying the National Pact
What does Ebola wants?
Ebola wants to rule the whole country. But, we do not want and we will never accept.
So, if Ebola wants to divide, then lets us do it, because I predict than in less than 25 years the Ebola region will be such a disaster that they will be begging for wanting to live with the other Communities...but it will be too late...
22 December 2015, 13:25
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Ah! Momo is in da house. With his great input, and his 9 fake accounts! lol
22 December 2015, 14:05
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jealous heh? where are those hundreds of millions of lebanese who supposedly are pro-saudi like you and should be supporting your stupid comments?
22 December 2015, 14:15
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@mowaten E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T. Still laughing since the day you declared with a straight face you were a shiaa atheist and also a member of hezbollah with only one account. I think i will also continue to laugh at your statement "jealous heh? ". Thank you Thank you
22 December 2015, 14:21
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oh where were you until now CFTC, i had missed your debate-elevating comments.
22 December 2015, 15:12
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yes yes momo, I love Saudi Arabia, yes ok, ok... you've made that clear... thank you, and bravo for this high iq of yours :)
22 December 2015, 16:20
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yea you are, hating that i got upvotes.
i have 6 downvotes in my comment after yours, while you only got 3 upvotes. that means you don't even got upvotes from your friends who downvote me lol.
22 December 2015, 16:45
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no not 13. i adapt my speech to my audience, so rightthere i'd say about 5 or 6.
dont come in whining about something, and blame me for answering you on it.
22 December 2015, 16:50
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OMG... it is even more serious than i thought... hem... yeah, ok momo, whatever you say man...em, young man...
22 December 2015, 17:58
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"Ah! Momo is in da house. With his great input, and his 9 fake accounts! lol"
ya kbir enta.
22 December 2015, 05:21
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The chief terrorist says "We do not have funds in any bank in the world or in Lebanese banks and the central bank and the directors of banks must not panic."
Just curious how do you pay the hundreds of employees employed at Al Manar? At the beginning of every month, a Mullah comes from Iran with a huge bag full of dollars and pays the lining employees in cash.. filthy liar!!!
22 December 2015, 08:21
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Quntar is not a hero by any standards. He wasn't brave or noble in killing a girl and he did nothing for Palestine, Lebanon or anybody else. That the hezb adopted him is a tragedy and mistake. What's worse, is that the entire 2006 fiasco-war was purportedly for the release of this murderer.
22 December 2015, 08:54
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when are these people going to grow up and find ways of helping out their people by improving their economic situation. I always come to the point of throwing up when I read that HN is going to speak. He's become a war maniac that only cares about killing and retaliation and what annoys me is his fatigue which is worn by people of God. I guess God must have become a warrior in our times and his leaders are only talking about killings. What a miserable state have we reached.
22 December 2015, 11:00
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Either:
Israelis Jet Fighters killed him, and it was with the approval and consent of the Russkies, or FSA killed him.
Either the Russkies are collaborating with Israel and don't give a damn about you, or, FSA killed him and you are trying to brainwash your people.
Either: You have money in Lebanese Banks, and you lie (because you say that you don't), or you don't (so you do not need to give us a 40 minutes speech about the matter, and you are wasting our time!
22 December 2015, 11:09
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Russians allowed the Israeli's free air space to kill that child murderer . Nobody can contest this issue if the Hezb think otherwise and think that the russians are protecting them
22 December 2015, 11:52
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israelis can fire missiles more than 200kms away from their targets, which means they were most probably over north israel when they fired. can't expect russia to down israeli planes there. at least not yet.
22 December 2015, 16:07
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"then tens of thousands of rockets will rain on Israel."
like the rockets on haifa and ba3d ba3d haifa... yes we know the song...
22 December 2015, 16:29
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anonyme, always right in time to make a fool of himself.
here are three examples of air launched missiles, that have ranges of 78, 150 and 1000 km respectively.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popeye_(missile)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88_HARM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-158_JASSM
there are dozens more, with a variety of ranges. they are called standoff missiles and specifically designed to be able to hit targets while avoiding defensive fire.
sometimes you should try to elevate yourself about the level of 5-year olds you seem to take as reference.
22 December 2015, 16:31
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israel also has ballistic missiles that can reach iran, so according to your "logic", can you tell us why they havent fired a single rocket at it?
22 December 2015, 16:31
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israel also has ballistic missiles that can reach iran, so according to your "logic", can you tell us why they havent fired a single rocket at it?
22 December 2015, 17:05
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bigjohn: i am just saying that hezbollah promised to bomb haifa and beyond haifa in 2006... but nothing happened just empty talks... like your tens of thousands of missiles pouring on israel!
22 December 2015, 11:51
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Notice Iran's flag colours in the background on Palestine's map....vilayet e faqih's dog has spoken.
22 December 2015, 14:45
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and he keeps on... he reaches the bottom but keeps digging... pityful
22 December 2015, 15:20
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oh well... momo reached the bottom long ago... he likes it there... :)
The irony is that he calls the others "retard" or "idiot" :)
22 December 2015, 14:31
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Only their arms will be aimed at Israel.. Why did Beirut burn yesterday from the shooting in the air?
22 December 2015, 16:06
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at least they are not allied with the pro-Israeli governments that makes Israeli aggression possible!
yes they are... israel tolerates assads in power because they ve been keeping the golan quiet for decades otherwise he would be long gone...
22 December 2015, 17:03
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israel just wants a syrian president that keeps the golan quiet whoever it may be... as long as assad fills the task israel does not need to remove him that's all....
22 December 2015, 17:19
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as there is a BIG difference between pledging allegiance to the iranian revolution ( meaning to obey it) and being allied with a country which you can differ with and disagree...
the point is: assad never did anything to free the golan but still calls himself "resistant"... see where the hypocrisy is?
if assad resisted israel and tried to free his country he would have been long gone... so he prefers to bow to israel rather than freeing his own country!
22 December 2015, 21:51
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It was an Israeli laser guided missile , but the target was laser painted by FSA faction as claimed.
