Northern Israel
Apr 22: on the Mediterranean Coast: Palestinian Terrorist Samir Kuntar slips from a small boat onto one of Nahariya’s beaches with three other terrorists.
The four militants then killed a policeman, and then broke into a nearby apartment building. Inside the building, the terrorists kidnapped a resident, a young father, Danny Haran, and his 4–year–old daughter, Einat, taking them to a nearby beach.
Terrorist Samir Kuntar was captured and found guilty of murdering Danny Harran in front of his daughter, then turning to the child and crushing her skull against a rock with the butt of his rifle.
Smadar Harran, Danny’s wife, who had hid in the apartment crawlspace with the couple’s 2–year–old daughter, accidentally suffocated the 2–year–old to death, while trying to keep her crying inaudible from the terrorists.
Samir Kuntar, the killer, remains a vaunted hero, if not “superhero,” to this day among militant Palestinian circles.
Author’s note – to some extent, we define ourselves by our “heroes.”
Kuntar will be at the vortex of events and of excruciating negotiations in the 2006–2008 period leading–into the publication of this work.
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