DUBAI (AlArabiya.net)
The longest-serving Lebanese prisoner in Israel is set to marry from behind bars later this week, press reports said on Tuesday.
Samir Kuntar is sentenced to 147 years in prison – four consecutive life terms and an additional 47 years – for his role in the killing of four Israelis in the city of Nahariya in 1979.
Kuntar, 45, is due to marry Fadah Said Abdullah, a former security prisoner who was sentenced to three years for conspiracy to commit murder and for relaying messages between Palestinian party Fatah and Lebanese opposition group Hezbollah, Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
The bride-to-be, a resident of the Kfar Akeb village near Occupied Jerusalem, was released from prison 18 months ago.
The marriage ceremony will be done by exchanging correspondence between the two, and will be officiated by their attorneys. Neither party filed a request to perform the wedding in prison, the Israel Prison Service (IPS) told Yedioth Ahronoth.
It will be Kuntar's second marriage. He was briefly married to a resident of east Jerusalem, but the IPS repeatedly denied his requests for conjugal visits.
Kuntar is serving time for his role in a 1979 attack in Nahariya to protest the Israel-Egypt peace treaty, in which he shot an Israeli hostage and his daughter. Two Israeli policemen and two of Kuntar's group of four were also killed in the raid.
He suffers from asthma and has a bullet lodged in his right lung. He has not seen his family since April 1979. |
