Havana, December 23 (RHC)-- With deep sorrow and indignation, the Cuban Arab Association condemned the assassination of legendary Lebanese combatant of Hezbola Samir Al Kantar during attacks carried out by an Israeli raid against a residential area in the city of Jaramana, in Damascus.

After years of imprisonment in Israeli jails, Al Kantar had been released in 2008, in a swap of prisoners between Hezbola and the Israeli government, following an international campaign demanding his release.

The Cuban-Arab Association said that his death in Syria as an internationalist combatant in the defense of the cause of the Arab peoples turns him into a symbol of patriotic resistance against Zionist and imperialist enemies and the mercenary and terrorist forces that try to impose their supremacy in the Middle East.