Arab media reports say Israel may have assassinated Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar.

Several Israeli Air Force missiles reportedly struck the Damascus suburb of Jaramana, killing Kuntar, in the early hours of Sunday.

The Assad regime blamed “terrorist groups” for the strike, but officials and local media said Israel was responsible for the attack.

A Lebanese Druze, Kuntar became infamous for a brutal 1979 raid from Lebanon in which he helped kidnap an Israeli family from Nahariya, then smashed the head of a four-year-old Israeli girl, Einat Haran, with his rifle butt, killing her. Three other Israelis were killed in the attack. He was 16 at the time, a member of the Palestine Liberation Front.

He spent 29 years in an Israeli prison before being traded to Hezbollah in 2008 in exchange for the bodies of IDF soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser. Since then, he has taken on a senior role in the group, been honored by then-Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and by Syrian President Bashar Assad, and helped to organize Syrian Druze on the Golan Heights and elsewhere into terror cells charged with carrying out attacks against Israel.

The news of the attack could not be confirmed by official sources, but a growing number of sources, including Iran’s official Press TV channel, are reporting his death.

According to Reuters, the “National Defense Forces” in Jaramana, a militia loyal to the Assad regime, mourned his death.

“His body has been sent to a Damascus hospital moments ago,” Reuters quoted the group as saying.

Kuntar’s brother Bassam took to Twitter to mourn his death.

At least eight others were said killed in the alleged targeted assassination, including a senior National Defense Forces commander that Israeli media said was himself involved in attacks against Israel.

The building in which Kuntar was believed to be residing was “completely destroyed” in the attack, according to initial reports.

Kuntar was previously reported killed by Israel in July. The report, by Channel 2 and based on Arab sources, turned out to be incorrect.

Five men were killed in that strike, which targeted a car on the Syrian Golan. Three were identified by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as belonging to a Druze militia based in the Syrian Druze village of Hader and loyal to the Assad regime and Hezbollah. The other two men were members of Hezbollah.

“An Israeli plane hit a car inside the town of Hader, killing two men from Hezbollah, and three men from the pro-regime popular committees in the town,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Observatory, a watchdog tracking the civil war raging in Syria since 2011