Einat Haran

Einat Haran, the daughter of Smadar and Danny Haran, was born in Nahariya on 03.01.1975. She went to a kindergarten Gan Chedva which was near her house in Jabutanski street. When she was 2 years old her young sister, Yael was born.

On that Saturday 22.04.1979 she had a peaceful Sabbath day with her parents and her young sister, she was on a picnics on the beach not far way from where she later was murdered. During the night between Saturday and Sunday, arrived a group of four militants from the PLF led by Samir Kuntar. The Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) is a Palestinian militant group which is designated as a terrorist organization by Canada, the European Union, and the United States.

While escaping from the police, three of the militant members of the designated terror organization entered an apartments block in Jabutanski St. 61 where Einat lived. They entered the building while shooting, the neighbors whom heard the shooting escaped to the shelter in an underground. One of the militant members of the designated terror organization was killed by a neighbor. Einat and her father were also on the way to shelter, but the two armed men took her and her father in force to the beach, not before crashing into her flat and searching without a success for her younger sister, Yael and her mother Smadar.

According to eyewitnesses, Samir Kuntar Einat's father Danny in front of Einat and then smashed the little girl's skull against a rock with his rifle butt. In mean time, Einat's two years old sister, Yael while in the hiding place at home, suffocated to death as a result of her mother's attempts to keep her quiet.

Samir Kuntar, the killer of Einat and her father is considered as a national hero in Lebanon.

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