Longest-serving Lebanese prisoner in Israel 'killed in Syria'
Samir Kantar, a Lebanese who was convicted of one of the most notorious attacks in Israeli history and spent nearly three decades in prison, has been killed in an Israeli air strike near the Syrian capital, the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah group said.
Hezbollah said Kantar, known in Lebanon as “The Dean of Lebanese Prisoners” for being the longest-held prisoner in Israel, was killed along with eight others in the strike in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana on Saturday night.
