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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas claims to nab Palestinian who aided alleged 2018 Mossad hit in Malaysia

2022-01-10

[IsraelTimes] Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, says unidentified suspect admitted to involvement in slaying of Fadi al-Batsh, an engineer who allegedly helped the terror group build weapons; father demands death penalty

The Hamas terror group announced on Sunday that it had arrested a Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Paleostinian who it alleged collaborated with the Israeli Mossad spy agency in the assassination of a Hamas weapons expert in Malaysia.

Fadi Mohammed al-Batsh, a Gaza-born electrical engineer and avowed Hamas member, was shot full of holes by two motorcyclists as he walked to dawn prayers in Kuala Lumpur in 2018, in a killing widely blamed on Israel.

"We arrested a person involved in the liquidation of engineer Fadi al-Batsh in Malaysia. He admitted to participating in the liquidation, which was commissioned by the Israeli Mossad," the Hamas-run Gaza Interior Ministry said in a statement Sunday.

The suspect has yet to be publicly identified by Hamas authorities. al-Batsh’s father told Gaza media that he would demand the death penalty and ask that he be allowed to carry it out himself.

"I will request to do to him exactly what he did to my son," Mohammad al-Batsh told the Hamas-linked Shehab news agency.

After al-Batsh was killed, the scientist’s family immediately blamed the Mossad for his death. Hamas officially claimed al-Batsh as a member posthumously. The armed wing of Hamas described al-Batsh as a member of the terror group’s military wing and "a commander."

Israeli politician Avigdor Liberman, who was then serving as defense minister, denied Israeli involvement in the killing. But Liberman also said that al-Batsh was involved in designing Hamas’s missile systems.

"This man was no saint. It was not about improving the electrical grid or improving infrastructure and water... He was engaged in the production of rockets, in improving the accuracy of rockets," Liberman told Army Radio at the time.

"Even if it wasn’t us, there’s no reason to shed a tear," Liberman added.

Israel has a long history of conducting assassinations of its enemies, both in the West Bank and Gaza and abroad. In the mid-1990s, Israeli agents allegedly bungled an attempt to kill Hamas chief Khaled Mashal in Jordan, resulting in a diplomatic crisis.

The deadly attacks increased during the Second Intifada, when Israel allegedly assassinated hundreds of senior Paleostinian terror group members in an effort to halt the wave of suicide kabooms against Israelis.

In Dubai, in 2010, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a key Hamas missile purchaser and importer, was assassinated in his hotel room in a killing widely attributed to Mossad.

The Israeli security services formally disavow most operations. But former officials have extensively discussed the policy in public interviews.

The Mossad has been also accused of targeting those who develop advanced weapons on behalf of terror groups, including Iranian nuclear scientists.

Top Iranian nuclear researcher Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was allegedly assassinated in November 2020 in a sophisticated hit led by a Mossad team.

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Africa North

Tunisia arrests two Bosnians in 2016 killing of Hamas drone expert

2018-12-13

Bosnians? He probably trifled with someone’s sister... or looked at her too long.

[IsraelTimes] Gazoo-based terror group has blamed Israel’s Mossad for the liquidation of Mohammed al-Zoari, one of its top scientists

Tunisia announced on Tuesday that it locked away
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
two suspects over the 2016 liquidation of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", drone expert Mohammed al-Zoari.

It identified the two men as Bosnian nationals Albert Sarak and Alain Kamedi, the Walla news site reported.

The December 15, 2016, liquidation of al-Zoari was widely blamed on Israel’s Mossad, including by the Hamas terror group, which acknowledged after the killing that Zoari was a central figure in its weapons development apparatus and called him a pioneer in developing its unmanned drones.

Tunisia’s Interior Ministry said this week the two suspects entered Tunisia via a sea port on December 8, 2016, a week before the killing. The men allegedly claimed to be representatives of tour companies, and toured the Djerba area and the south of the country.

Officials allege that the two planned the killing for 18 months, and had used Tunisian citizens in the operation.

The latest claims follow Tunisian authorities’ announcement in May that they had arrested a suspect in the liquidation, whom Arab media outlets say was nabbed in Croatia on March 13.

It’s not clear what the latest announcement means for the claim, voiced by numerous Arab outlets, that Israel was behind the killing. There was no immediate report of a connection between the Bosnian suspects and Israeli espionage bodies.

Shortly after the liquidation, a senior Hamas official, Mushir al-Masri, told a Tunisian radio station that "the Zionist enemy" was the only party likely to benefit from the liquidation of Zoari, and that Mossad had a long history of killing experts with capability to develop military technology, especially those related to developing UAVs.

Israel does not want such capabilities to reach Paleostinian organizations in Gazoo, Masri said.

Hamas has also blamed Israel for the killing of its rocket scientist Fadi al-Batsh, 35, in Malaysia in April.

Zoari, an aviation scientist and engineer with longstanding links to Hamas, was rubbed out at point-blank range on December 15, 2016, in the Tunisian city of Sfax.

Zoari was said to have helped Hamas develop unmanned drones.

He was shot multiple times ‐ some reports said as many as 20 bullets were fired at him ‐ while sitting in his car near his home.

A senior Tunisian journalist said at the time that the Mossad had been tracking Zoari for quite some time, and was responsible for his liquidation.

Israel’s Channel 2 news said Zoari was reported to have received death threats because of his Paleostinian terror links. However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
Channel 2 also quoted Tunisian security officials as saying that the investigation of the death did not immediately suggest an liquidation by a foreign intelligence agency.

There was no official Israeli response to the reports.

Al Jazeera’s take ignores non-Mossad possibilities:

On December 15, 2016, a 49-year-old Tunisian man was rubbed out outside his home in Sfax, 270 kilometres south-east of Tunis.

Mohammed al-Zawari had been known locally as an aviation engineer interested in drone technology, but in fact, he had led a double life, heading a drone development project for the military wing of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, the Qassam Brigades.

According to Al Jazeera Arabic's investigation by Tamer Almisshal, several parties were involved in a coordinated plot against al-Zawari, who up until his death was called 'Mourad' by many of those who knew him, including his wife.

Almisshal believes it has all the hallmarks of an extrajudicial killing by Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad, but these cases are notoriously difficult to prove and must for the moment remain speculation.

Al-Zawari first left Tunisia in 1991 as a dissident against the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. He managed to travel using a fake passport and worked in a military manufacturing installation in Sudan. He only returned home after the 2011 revolution that forced Ben Ali out of the country.

Shortly after his death, Hamas announced that the drone expert had worked for the Qassam Brigades for a decade. They credited him with developing the Ababeel drones used against Israel in Gazoo in the summer of 2014.

"By the 2008 Israeli aggression against Gazoo, the team had manufactured 30 drones in an Iranian military factory," according to a Qassam Brigades member going by the name of 'Abu Mohammed'. Another Brigades member, Abu Mujahid, says drones were important to them because "we can conduct it with precision against military targets and avoid civilians."

As well as building drones, al-Zawari did innovative research into remote-controlled submarines, as potential combat devices for the Qassam Brigades.

Israeli journalist Moav Vardi went to Tunisia to investigate the Zawari case. "It's not a criminal liquidation by a gang, or a neighbour's quarrel," he says. "From what it seems, Israel has the interest and the ability to carry out such an operation."

There have been other alleged Mossad liquidations outside Israeli territory. For instance, Israel admitted responsibility for the 1988 killing of a senior Paleostinian commander Abu Jihad, whose real name was Khalil al-Wazir, at his home in Tunis, Tunisia. Wazir was a friend and deputy to then Paleostinian chief Yasser Arafat, who headed the Paleostine Liberation Organisation (PLO).

Mossad is also alleged to have been behind the 2010 murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel. He was the Hamas logistics commander for the Qassam Brigades; and of the Black September founder Ali Hassan Salameh, or The Red Prince, using a car loaded with heavy explosives in Beirut in 1979.

In March 2018, two men were jugged
Please don't kill me!
in connection with Zawari's murder, Croatian Alen Camdzic and Bosnian Elvir Sarac. In May, Croatia's highest court blocked Camdzic's extradition to Tunisia and Sarac was released after a Bosnian court refused to hand him over to Tunisia, saying there was no extradition deal between the countries.

Until the Tunisian authorities manage to extradite the two men, the case of the murder of Mohammed al-Zawari cannot begin to be resolved - whoever was behind it.

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Europe

Bosnia rejects extradition request for alleged killer of Hamas engineer

2018-05-18

[IsraelTimes] Court rules man wanted by Tunisia for suspected role in Mohammed Zouari's killing cannot be extradited as there is no treaty between the countries

A Bosnian court on Thursday rejected a request from Tunisia to extradite a man wanted for his alleged involvement in the killing of a Tunisian engineer who was claimed by the Paleostinian terror group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, as a member.

The court ruled that Elvir Sarac, who the judge said is accused by Tunisia of "instigating terrorist acts and of membership of a terrorist organization, as well as of harming public order and international security," could not be sent to Tunisia as there is no extradition treaty between the countries, Rooters reported.

Sarac, a Tunisian citizen was jugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
last week on an Interpol warrant, is one of two Bosnian nationals wanted by Tunisia for their alleged role in killing of Mohammed Zouari.

The other suspect has been identified as Alen Camdzic, who was arrested in Croatia in March. A Croatian court approved his extradition earlier this month, though the ruling is subject to appeal to the country’s Supreme Court.

Zouari, a dual citizen of Tunisia and Belgium, was killed in a hail of bullets outside his house in Tunisia’s second city Sfax in December 2016.

Shortly after his death, Hamas said he was a drone expert who had worked for the "resistance" for a decade before being killed by "Zionist treachery."

Israel refuses to respond to the allegations.

Israel was also accused of being behind the liquidation last month in Malaysia of Fadi al-Batsh, a Hamas scientist who was said to be a rocket-making expert. Family and friends of Batsh accused Israel’s Mossad spy agency of carrying out the killing in Kuala Lumpur on April 21.

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Southeast Asia

Malaysia: Weapons used in Albatsh killing possibly found

2018-05-06

[Ynet] Malaysian chief of police says 2 assassins made getaway in awaiting van after abandoning cycle of violence, leaving for neighboring country; official confirmation regarding weapons still forthcoming, he qualifies, adding hitmen used fake Serbian, Montenegrin passports.

Malaysian police revealed Saturday that the two assassins who killed Paleostinian Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, engineer Fadi Albatsh

...the North Korea-linked university lecturer in electrical engineering and clean energy who developed an unhealthy interest in drones for Hamas, despite being related to Islamic Jihad bigwig Khaled Albatsh. He is also in our archives as Fadi al-Batsh...

used a van to escape the scene of the liquidation, after leaving the cycle of violence they used to get there behind.

Royal Malaysia Police Inspector General Mohamad Fuzi Harun said the vehicle was awaiting the killers, and that they later escaped to another country in the region. The Malaysian police was reportedly investigating whether they had escaped to Thailand.

The Malaysian chief of police added that weapons that may have been used in the hit were sent to a forensics laboratory, clarifying it was still unclear whether they were indeed used in the killing.

"Police have exposed the weapon," he said, "but I cannot yet divulge more details until a report on the matter is received."

Lastly, Harun revealed that the assassins used fake passports from Serbia and Montenegro to enter Malaysia, adding passports of other countries may have also been used.

Albatsh, 35 at the time of his death, was shot to death April 21 at around 6am by two unknown assailants riding a cycle of violence, as he was making his way from his Kuala Lumpur home to a nearby mosque.

The engineer, originally from the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gazoo Strip, worked at the isolated enclave's electricity company before leaving for Malaysia. He received his bachelor's degree from the Islamic University of Gazoo, and a doctorate from a Malaysian university after moving to the country in 2011.

He was considered outstanding in the field of electrical engineering and has won numerous awards for his work. According to his résumé, he had worked in areas that may relate to installing transmitters on drones.

He was buried in Gazoo on April 26. "Albatsh had always hoped for a martyr's death," Gazoo leader Ismail Haniyeh

...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
said at his funeral. "We shall sever the arm that was sent to rid of this knowledge."

"Albatsh returned to Gazoo in spite of the opposition of (Defense Minister Avigdor) Lieberman. We thank Malaysia, Egypt and anyone who helped in returning him to Gazoo," he added.

"It's an honor for Paleostine, Gazoo and Jabalia for Fadi to have hailed from there. Blood is the fuel of our lives and liquidations are the path to martyrdom. We shall prevail," the Hamas chief vowed.

The Times of Israel adds:

Hamas, which seeks to destroy Israel, identified Batsh as a commander in its military wing and quickly accused the Mossad of being behind the hit. Israeli media reported that Batsh was a key player in a military drone program being developed by Hamas.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas buries rocket and drone expert slain in Malaysia

2018-04-27

[IsraelTimes] At Gazoo funeral, Paleostinian terror group leader Haniyeh vows to 'sever the hand' that assassinated Fadi al-Batsh

Thousands of Paleostinians joined a mass funeral on Thursday for a Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", rocket and drone expert who was bumped off in Malaysia last week.

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh

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Southeast Asia

Malaysia finds motorbike allegedly used in Hamas drone expert’s killing

2018-04-25

[IsraelTimes] Local police chief announces development in investigation of drive-by shooting of Fadi al-Batsh, blamed on Israel

Malaysian police have found the cycle of violence

allegedly used in the drive-by shooting of a Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, rocket and drone expert in Kuala Lumpur, the national police chief said Tuesday.

Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh, 35, was killed on Saturday in the country’s capital as he walked to a mosque for dawn prayers, according to Malaysian authorities. His family and the Hamas terror group have blamed the hit on Israel’s Mossad spy agency. Israel has denied the claim.

National police chief Mohamad Fuzi Harun said that the motorbike allegedly used by the assailants had been found in the Setapak area of Kuala Lumpur.

"The cycle of violence is in good condition," he told news hounds, without giving further details

Police previously said they believed either a BMW or a Kawasaki was used in the attack.

Earlier Tuesday, the Paleostinian envoy to Malaysia said Batsh’s body will be flown to the Gazoo Strip through Egypt within 24 hours. His family said the body would be flown to Egypt and enter the Paleostinian enclave Wednesday at 2 p.m. through the Rafah crossing. His wife and three children would also be granted access, according to the claim.

On Sunday, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman had said Israel was asking the Egyptian government not to allow Batsh’s body to be returned to his family in the Gazoo Strip until Hamas returns to Israel the bodies of two IDF soldiers, as well as two mentally ill Israeli citizens, it is holding in the enclave.

Hamas said Batsh was a "loyal" member and a "scientist of Paleostine’s youth scholars." It said he had made "important contributions" and participated in international forums in the field of energy.

Hebrew media reports said Batsh was deeply involved in Hamas’s efforts to improve the accuracy of its rockets and to develop drones. The Gazoo-born scientist had reportedly published material recently on drone development, and on transmitters for controlling drones.

Hadashot TV news said Hamas has sent numerous young Gazooks for technical training in Malaysia. The country has proved a "paradise" for Hamas in recent years, Channel 10 news reported.

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Southeast Asia

Malaysian police issue sketches of suspects in hit on Hamas rocket expert

2018-04-24

[IsraelTimes] Men in killing ascribed to Mossad described as being of Middle Eastern or European descent, well-built, 1.80 meters tall; officials say no threat made to family of Fadi al-Batsh

Malaysian police on Monday issued facial composites of two suspects in the shooting of a Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", rocket and drone expert bumped off over the weekend, in what the Paleostinian terror group says was an liquidation by Israel.

Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh, 35, was killed in a drive-by shooting on Saturday in the country’s capital, according to Malaysian authorities.

Royal Malaysia Police Inspector-General Tan Sri Mohamad Fuzi Harun said Sunday the suspects were male, around 1.80 meters tall, well-built, had fair complexions, and were believed to be of Middle Eastern or Western descent.

Harun said the composite images were based on eyewitness descriptions.

The suspects had been riding BMW and Kawasaki cycle of violence

s and it was not clear if they were still in the country, he added.

Harun said 14 bullets were recovered from the body of the victim after an autopsy and had been sent for forensic examination.

He noted that no threat had been made against Batsh’s family.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Minister Warns Hamas of Retaliation if it Targets Israeli Officers Abroad

2018-04-24

[AAWSAT] Israel did not officially admit to the liquidation of Paleostinian scientist Fadi al-Batsh in Malaysia with its Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman saying it was likely part of "settling scores" between Paleostinian factions.

Israeli experts and analysts, however, agreed that such a "clean" operation done with precision was most probably executed by the likes of the Mossad Israeli intelligence.

Meanwhile,
...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start on his third quart...
Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz warned the Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, leadership against threatening Israeli officers abroad, warning that Tel Aviv will retaliate by targeting the movement’s bigwigs.

"I suggest that (Hamas politburo chief Ismail) Haniyeh talk less and be more careful," Katz cautioned on Sunday, adding: "Gazoo is much closer than Malaysia."

He said an attack against Israelis abroad would be crossing a red line, threatening that it would lead to the resumption of Israel's assassination policy.

"Hamas officials in Gazoo, with (Haniyeh) among them, are expected to be hurt badly."

"Haniyeh and his friends should be careful before they speak ... because Israel's ability to hurt them will be absolute, hard and swift," Katz went on to say.

On Saturday, Batsh, 35, was assassinated by button men while he was on his way to morning prayers at a mosque near his house in Gombak north of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

When asked about accusations that Israel killed the scientist, Katz indicated that it does not comment on such incidents.

"But based on what has been reported so far about the profession of the man who was assassinated, and based on the cries of despair from the heads of Hamas in Gazoo, it turns out he was not such a great saint, and the citizens of Israel have no reason to shed a tear over him," he stressed.

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Southeast Asia

Israel-Hamas shadow war follows Palestinian expats to Malaysia

2018-04-23

[IsraelTimes] Kuala Lumpur is home to large Paleostinian community, and a growing Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, presence

It’s not surprising that the Mossad was immediately declared the prime suspect in the liquidation of Fadi al-Batsh, the mysterious Paleostinian electrical engineer originally from Gazoo who only after his liquidation in Malaysia on Saturday morning was revealed to be a member of Hamas’s military wing.

Most of the Paleostinian factions have already rushed to pronounce the Israeli spy agency the culprit. It’s hard to tell if they have anything to go on except the obvious question: Who has an interest in removing Batsh?

The operation to take down Batsh shares many similarities with the last liquidation attributed to the Mossad: that of the Tunisian scientist Muhammad a-Zawari, rubbed out by person or persons unknown on December 15, 2016, in Sfax, Tunisia.

In Zawari’s case, too, it was only after his death that Hamas publicized the fact that he was working for its military wing and was part of its efforts to develop advanced drones and an unmanned submarine.

Unlike Zawari, Batsh was born in the Gazoo Strip and grew up in Jabaliya. He was considered a genius in his electrical engineering studies and had close ties with several Hamas leaders in Gazoo.

He had lived with his family in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur for the past eight years, and even served as a holy man in one of the city’s mosques. In fact, it was during his early morning walk to dawn prayers that unidentified assassins riding a BMW cycle of violence fired 10 bullets at him, abruptly ejecting him from the gene pool.

It is not immediately clear what sorts of projects Batsh was involved in as a member of Hamas’s military wing. It is highly unlikely that he was working to develop clean energy sources for the organization, for example, and much more probable that his work involved research and development of new weapons systems.

Batsh’s decision to move to Malaysia may seem surprising, but not a few Paleostinians, especially students, have relocated to the country in recent years, sparking intensive efforts by Hamas on Malaysian campuses to recruit them to its cause.

According to a 2015 article in Malam, an Israeli journal that deals with intelligence and terrorism, Hamas once used Malaysia as the setting to train operatives for an especially audacious terror attack involving parachutists.

In the same period, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported that Hamas had recruited some 40 Paleostinian students to work as its operatives on Malaysian campuses. Batsh himself worked as a lecturer at a private university in the country.

Throughout Kuala Lumpur and elsewhere (including the International Islamic University in Gombak), there are activities by Hamas activists and visits from Hamas leaders. Even the son of Osama Hamdan, who is responsible for Hamas’s foreign relations, lives in Malaysia.

The liquidation on Saturday, as well as others that came before, offer glimpses into what appears to be a covert war taking place behind the scenes between Hamas and the State of Israel that may have dramatic consequences for the Gazoo Strip. Hamas is constantly trying to develop and acquire ever more efficient and deadly weapons, including of the sort that might tilt the balance of deterrence in its favor.

It appears someone ‐ possibly Israel, possible someone else ‐ is determined to stop it by any means necessary.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas says man gunned down in Malaysia was important member

2018-04-22