(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Hezbollah terrorist group has made up its mind to exact revenge over the recent death of arch-terrorist Samir Kuntar, Lebanese media reported Dec. 31. Kuntar was killed on Dec. 19 in an airstrike near Damascus. Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah has accused Israel of assassinating the infamous terrorist, and vowed that a “painful retaliation will follow.” The threat prompted Israel to use third-party mediators to warn Nasrallah that any attempt by the Shi’a terrorist group to escalate tensions on the Israel-Lebanon border would be met with a forceful Israeli response. According to Lebanese media, Nasrallah met with a German mediator in Beirut several days after Kuntar’s death. The mediator told him that any retaliation by Hezbollah would earn a wide-scale Israeli reaction, perhaps even to the tune of a military campaign in Lebanon. Nasrallah reportedly replied, “The decision to retaliate over Kuntar’s death has been made, and it’s final. There’s no turning back. The days when Hezbollah was willing to accept the killing of its operatives by Israel are over.”