On the 12 of July 2006, a special ops team of Hezbollah commited the operation "Truthful Promise". They launched rockets at Israeli cites, and used the diversion to attack two Israeli patrols in Israeli territory, killing three soldiers, and capturing two. Eldad Regev, and Ehud Goldwasser, were both reservist soldiers, and were in their last operation when they were attacked and captured. They were captured, with the intention of returning prisioners held in Israeli jails, being "Samir Kuntar" between them.
For two years, the families had no information about their sons, and didn't know if they are dead or alive, and how their conditions are. For two long years they were held in hope, that the Hezbollah soldiers will have consideration for their sons and husbands, for two years, they had to walk on a loose rope. Two days ago, Hezbollah leaked information informing that one of the soldiers survived the attack, while the other one was surelly dead. No information about who died, and the condition of the other one.
Now let's talk about Samir Kuntar. Samir Kuntar is a Lebanese member of the "Palestinian Liberation Front". Some people would call him a freedom fighter. I'd rather call him a terrorist. On the 22 of April 1979, a team of the PLF including him entered Israel using a boat, coming from southern Lebanon. Around midnight they arrived the coast of Naharyia, an Israeli city 10 kilometers away from Lebanon. There they were caught by a police officer, but they killed him. Then they arrived at a building in the Jabotinsky street, where they split in two teams. The team of Samir entered the home of the Haran family, and grabbed Danny Haran, and his 4 years old daughter Einat, while Danny's wife and baby daughter, Yael, succeded to hide in a crawl space. Samir's group took Danny and Einat back to the beach, and shot Danny in the back in front of Einat, so it would be the last thing she saw. Later, he grabbed Einat, smashed her head against rocks, and crushed her skull with his rifle's back. A true freedom fighter. This is how the "Maariv" newspaper covered the story in 1979: "After drowning Danny in the sea in front of Einat (as Ahmed Al-Brass,
Mhanna Salim Al-Muayed, and Abdel Majeed Asslan served as look outs and
backup cover for Kuntar), Kuntar turned his attention towards the 4
year-old. He took his rifle and then swung it across the toddler's
head, knocking her to the ground. Kuntar then dragged the toddler a
couple of feet to the closest rock he could find and laid her head down
on a rock, with the intention of crushing it with the butt of his
rifle. Einat, instinctively covered her head with her arms, Kuntar
struggled with the toddler until he finally managed to clear her arms
out of the way. Once her arms were out of the way, Kuntar repeatedly
beat her on the head with the butt of his rifle and stomping on her
body, until blood rushed out of her ears and mouth. Then, to ensure she
was dead, Kuntar continued beating her over the head until her skull
was crushed and she was dead"
Samir Kuntar was caught, and sentenced to life imprisonment in an Israeli jail, where he married an Arab Israeli woman. Until their divorce, she received money from the Israeli government for being the wife of an inmate. During his stay in prison, he also graduated from the "Open University of Israel" in social and political science.
Today,
5 terrorists were released for the two soldiers. Little would the
families know, that their sons were dead, and coming back home in
coffins.
Two years the families were held on false hopes. Samir Kuntar, is one of those 5 terrorists. Today, a child killer was released from prison, in exchange for two bodies. He is considered a hero in Lebanon for what he did, and is already using his new outfit, while in Gaza, candies and flowers were handed in the streets as a sign of celebration.
So Eldad and Ehud, even though you will never read this, I want to tell you that you will be missed.
God, that's horrible :(
Thanks for posting it though. It is interesting to know what goes on in the world. (perhaps interesting is the wrong word... perhaps more of a necessity... you know what I mean...)
Will peace ever come to our tiny little country? I really hope so. It enrages me that this inhuman beast Quntar was released for two bodies, but I can understand this since the families where really held in air and it surely is a very bad situation for them. I'm joining the IDF in about a year, I hope things will be better by then! Peace
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