Syria. Samir Kuntar, the longest-held Lebanese prisoner in Israel, is killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria. In 1979, Kuntar, along with three other members of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), infiltrated Israel by sea from Lebanon. The commando attacked a family home in Nahariya before escaping with two hostages to a beach, where three members of the commando were killed in a shootout with Israeli security forces. Kuntar, the sole survivor, was convicted of killing two family members, a father and his four-year-old daughter, who had been taken hostage, and an Israeli policeman, Eliyahu Shahar. He became a member of Hezbollah while in prison. He and four other Hezbollah fighters were released in 2008 in exchange for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers captured and killed in 2006.
