Israel's longest-held prisoner --a Lebanese man -- was killed in Syria by an Israeli airstrike on Saturday night, NBC News reported.
Samir Kantar was a Lebanese man who was convicted of executing one of the most notorious attacks in Israeli history and spent nearly three decades in an Israeli prison. He was killed by an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential building in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana Saturday night, according to the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah group.
Kantar and four Hezbollah guerrillas were freed in 2008 in exchange for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah in 2006, whose capture sparked a 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah. His release was highly controversial in Israel, where he is believed to be the perpetrator of one of the most grisly attacks in Israeli history
