2 years after their capture from the Israeli side of the border, Eldad Regev and Udi Goldwasser are coming home.
Honoring its full commitment to each and every soldier in the IDF, Israel is paying a heavy price for their return, releasing cold blooded child killer terrorist Samir Kuntar.
On April 22, 1979, Kuntar's terror cell reached the shore of Nahariya in a rubber dinghy; they shot at a police car and killed an Israeli police officer. At midnight they broke into the Haran family home, and abducted the father, Danny, and his four-year-old daughter, Einat. The mother, Smadar, the two-year-old daughter Yael, and a neighbor hid in a bedroom crawlspace.
The terrorists took the hostages towards the shore and, when they encountered law enforcement officers and IDF soldiers, Samir Kuntar shot Danny Haran at close range and cold-bloodedly slaughtered Einat by bashing her skull against a rock with the butt of his rifle. In the hiding place at the Haran home, baby Yael suffocated to death from her mother’s attempts to keep her quiet so the terrorists would not find them.
In the gunfire battle that ensued on
the beach, an Israeli police officer and two members of the terror cell
were killed.
Our hearts are with the families of Eldad Regev and Udi Goldwasser. Samir Kuntar may be returning to Lebanon, but please help us spread this video about his hideous crimes.
Here is the response of Israel's Foreign Affairs Ministry to the deal and its implications:
