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| 18/07/2008 A day after being released from the Israeli jail and returned to his homeland as part of “Operation Al-Redwan”, freed detainee Samir Kintar talked to Al-Manar TV channel, in a special interview, about his heroic operation in 1979 in which he was detained. Kintar said that Israel invented a different story on Nahariya operation (Gamal Abdel Nasser Operation, which was named after the Egyptian president) in order to gain the public’s sympathy.
"I'm innocent. I did not kill the Israeli girl and I'm not defending myself for fear of the enemy," Kintar said, adding that Israel invented the girl's murder.
Israel claims that Kintar had killed Danny Haran, a nuclear scientist, and his four-year old daughter.
Kintar said that after arriving at the Nahariya coast through the sea, he turned towards Haran’s home in a bid to take him hostage and return to Lebanon.
The cell members took Haran and his daughter with them to the beach after he insisted on taking her, and had he not done that, they would have only taken him to Lebanon. At the beach, a long battle broke out with Israeli occupation forces. Two of the cell members were killed and two others were injured, recounted Kintar.
He added that he had read "in the Zionists' report of 1979" that Haran's daughter was killed by Israeli army fire.
In the interview, Kintar displayed an apparent wide knowledge of Israel and its methods of operation, particularly in the intelligence field.
Kintar also blasted Arab nations for not doing enough in the years of conflict with Israel to help the Palestinian cause and said they sufficed with solidarity gestures alone.
The freed hero expressed his longing to return to Palestine and said, “I promised that [I would return] to my family and all those who love me in Palestine. My brothers in the Islamic Resistance and I, are going back".
Kintar also said that “Operation Al-Redwan” is an extension to the Islamic Resistance’s victory in 2006, adding that Israel is witnessing its most humiliating days since 60 years.
An Israeli official threatened Kintar upon his release that the freed detainee remains a target for Israel. A day earlier Yediot Ahronot columnist Ron Ben Yishai also threatened Kintar with an unorthodox death. “Ask your comrades in the PLO and Hezbollah what was the ultimate fate of various killers of Israelis and Jews years after they thought their actions were forgotten; for example, what happened to the killers of our athletes in Munich and their masterminds – the last of them died in unnatural circumstances 24 years after that horrific massacre. So learn from the past and draw your conclusions,” Ben Yishai wrote. |
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