Nasrallah says Israel will regret not releasing Kuntar

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Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said Thursday that Israel would regret not releasing militant Samir Kuntar in the prisoner exchange deal carried out Thursday, and said members of his organization would kidnap Israeli soldiers again.

In 1979, Kuntar murdered a police officer and three members of the Haran family in the northern city of Nahariya.

Speaking at a festive ceremony held in honor of the Lebanese prisoners freed by Israel on Thursday, Nasrallah said that in future kidnappings, the Israeli soldiers would survive the abduction and be live hostages. The remark was a reference to the fact that the three soldiers abducted by Hezbollah in October 2000, whose bodies were returned Thursday as part of the prisoner exchange, were killed prior to the kidnapping.

"Next time I promise you we will capture them alive," Nasrallah told those attending the Hezbollah rally.


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