FACT CHECK · DETENTION, TORTURE AND PRISONER SWAPS
Claim: Samir Kuntar was 16 when he was jailed
TRUETHE ANSWER
True: in 1979, aged 16, he led a PLF raid on Nahariya that killed Danny Haran and his daughter Einat, 4; Yael, 2, suffocated in hiding. Freed in a 2008 swap.
SOURCE
1979 Nahariya attack; Samir Kuntar (Wikipedia, citing Israeli court records)
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