WEST BANK: Palestinian who went missing in Ukraine describes abduction by Mossad
A Palestinian who went missing last month in Ukraine after boarding a train in Kharko headed to Kiev, was kidnapped by agents of Mossad, the Israeli spy agency and brought to Israel against his will, according to a report published Monday by the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights.
The report says one of its lawyers was able to visit Derar abu Sisi, 42, in his Israeli prison cell, and learn the truth behind the Gaza resident's sudden disappearance.
Abu Sisi, who is director of operations at the Gaza power generation plant, told the human rights group that he was travelling to Kiev on Feb. 19 to meet with his brother, who was coming from the Netherlands. Three persons, two in military uniforms, entered his cabin on the train and asked for his passport. Abu Sisi refused, but they threatened him and forcefully took his passport. They then handcuffed and hooded him and took him off the train as it stopped in Poltava.
He was then taken by car to Kiev where he was held in an apartment. Six people, who introduced themselves as Mossad agents, immediately began to question him. He was later put on a plane, which landed at an unknown place after about four to five hours. Approximately 30 minutes later, they took off again and the flight lasted for approximately one hour and upon landing Abu Sisi found himself in Israel.
Abu Sisi, who is married to a Ukrainian woman and has six children, was denied contact with a lawyer for 25 days during which he was heavily interrogated.
Israel justified the abduction by claiming that Abu Sisi is a member of the Islamist Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, and that he has good relations with top Hamas leaders, suggesting he may have information useful for Israeli intelligence.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights accused the Ukrainian government of colluding with Israel in the kidnapping. It said that Abu Sisi was not legally arrested by Ukrainian authorities and he was not brought before any court.
It expressed concern over his health and the psychological impact of the kidnapping on him and his family, calling for his immediate release.
— Maher Abukhater in Ramallah, West Bank
Abductions, assassinations, war crimes, illegal settlements, gross human rights violations, stealing of water, fruits, land from helpless Palestinian farmers and then uprooting and burning their trees. Undoubtedly a glowing example of a free and democratic country, the only one of it's kind in the middle east. There is so much we could learn from Israel. sajepress dot com
Posted by: Zafar Khan | March 24, 2011 at 05:22 AM
@stefano888. greetings.
you left out the market leaders in abduction/kidnap/torture/degrading peoples lives/false imprisionment.
guantanamo the torture house,was it not meant to have been closed.
em,move from your green house if you wish to carry on throwing stones.
thank you.
Posted by: sam | March 23, 2011 at 04:10 PM
Another Palestinian tooth fairy....obviously smoking too much Ganja
Posted by: Julian | March 23, 2011 at 02:26 PM
I guess if someone might have "information that's useful" to you, then it's okay to kidnap them?
Posted by: Mike Cagle | March 22, 2011 at 07:25 AM
Israel breaks international law. What is so new about it? If they do not assassinate, then they kidnap.
Posted by: Stefano888 | March 22, 2011 at 01:19 AM
Who even kidnapped him broke Ukraine laws since his was not officially arrested and who even put him on the plane broke both Ukraine laws and Int. laws since he did not get a court hearing on extradition.
His citizenship is the 64 dollar question since UN has him listed officially as Israeli refugee but Israel does not recognize non-Jewish refugees as citizens, so he is a resident of Gaza but a citizen of no country, while his wife and 6 children are Ukrainian.
If he had blood on his hands or an active terrorist I could understand this but he ran the US build power plant in Gaza after training and working in the Ukraine for 10yrs to learn the trade. While a member of Hamas, it was likely to get the job since they are currently in power and were elected at one point but maybe he possible had critical information that Israel thought was worth the risk and bad PR.
Posted by: Bloodyscot | March 21, 2011 at 10:36 PM
What kind of kidnapping is this that his atorney can visit him in jail and later can report freely of what happened?
Not a kidnapping.
Posted by: Willfred | March 21, 2011 at 10:18 PM
Sounds like Ukraine deported him. What are the laws of Ukraine, and what country is he a resident of?
Posted by: MissMarple | March 21, 2011 at 07:30 PM