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'''Dirar Abu Seesi''' or: '''Abu Sisi''' ([[Arabic]]: '''ضرار أبو سيسي'''; born in 1969 in [[Jordan]])<ref name="Interior Ministry">{{cite web | url=http://www.moi.gov.ps/en/news/24839/Palestinian-Ministry-of-Interior-addresses-urgent-appeal-for-Ukrainian-Interior-Ministry-and-demands-to-disclose-the-reasons-for-disappearance-of-Abu-Sisi | title=Palestinian Ministry of Interior addresses urgent appeal for Ukrainian Interior Ministry and demands to disclose the reasons for disappearance of Abu Sisi | publisher=Palestine Ministry of Interior | date=February 27, 2011 | accessdate=March 25, 2011}}</ref> is the Deputy Engineer for the [[Gaza Strip]]'s sole [[Power station|electrical plant]], which provides 25% of Gaza's power,<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=40884 | title=Gaza power plant reopens after Hamas does deal | publisher=Middle East Online | accessdate=March 22, 2011}}</ref><ref name="Interfax" /> and, according to [[Israel]], also a [[Hamas]] weapons engineer. In February 2011, he traveled to [[Ukraine]], his wife's native country, to apply for citizenship, after coming to believe that Gaza was no longer a safe place to raise his six children. He disappeared in [[Poltava]] on February 19, and later turned up in an Israeli prison.<ref name="Haaretz" /> On April 4th, he was indicted for his alleged aid to Hamas.
'''Dirar Abu Seesi''' or: '''Abu Sisi''' ([[Arabic]]: '''ضرار أبو سيسي'''; born in 1969 in [[Jordan]])<ref name="Interior Ministry">{{cite web | url=http://www.moi.gov.ps/en/news/24839/Palestinian-Ministry-of-Interior-addresses-urgent-appeal-for-Ukrainian-Interior-Ministry-and-demands-to-disclose-the-reasons-for-disappearance-of-Abu-Sisi | title=Palestinian Ministry of Interior addresses urgent appeal for Ukrainian Interior Ministry and demands to disclose the reasons for disappearance of Abu Sisi | publisher=Palestine Ministry of Interior | date=February 27, 2011 | accessdate=March 25, 2011}}</ref> is the Deputy Engineer for the [[Gaza Strip]]'s sole [[Power station|electrical plant]], which provides 25% of Gaza's power,<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=40884 | title=Gaza power plant reopens after Hamas does deal | publisher=Middle East Online | accessdate=March 22, 2011}}</ref><ref name="Interfax" /> and, according to charges by Israel's Shin Bet, also a [[Hamas]] weapons engineer. In February 2011, he traveled to [[Ukraine]], his wife's native country, to apply for citizenship, after coming to believe that Gaza was no longer a safe place to raise his six children. He was detained by Ukrainian security personnel on a train in [[Poltava]] on February 19, and flown to Israel where he was placed in prison.<ref name="Haaretz" /> On April 4th, the Shin Bet released the charges against him which claimed he was a rocket engineer for Hamas.


==Abduction==
==Abduction==
On the evening of February 18th, after formally filing the papers for citizenship, Abu Seesi was traveling by train to the [[Kiev]] airport for a reunion with his brother Yussef, who was residing in the [[Netherlands]] and whom he hadn’t seen in 15 years. Just outside the city of [[Poltava]], two men, whom the family believes were Ukrainian security agents, entered the train and removed Dirar. After that, he disappeared. His wife Veronika, who was in Ukraine at the time as well, didn’t hear from him for a week. During that period of silence, she summoned the Ukrainian press and stated that the [[Mossad]] had kidnapped him.<ref name="Haaretz" /> On February 27th, the Palestinian Interior Ministry demanded that the Ukrainian Interior Ministry disclose the reasons for his disappearance.<ref name="Interior Ministry"/>
On the evening of February 18th, after formally filing the papers for citizenship, Abu Seesi was traveling by train to the [[Kiev]] airport for a reunion with his brother Yussef, who was residing in the [[Netherlands]] and whom he hadn’t seen in 15 years. Just outside the city of [[Poltava]], two men, whom the family believes were Ukrainian security agents, entered the train and removed Dirar. After that, he disappeared. His wife Veronika, who was in Ukraine at the time as well, didn’t hear from him for a week. During that period of silence, she summoned the Ukrainian press and stated that the [[Mossad]] had kidnapped him.<ref name="Haaretz" /> On February 27th, the Palestinian Interior Ministry demanded that the Ukrainian Interior Ministry disclose the reasons for his disappearance.<ref name="Interior Ministry"/>


In early March, the [[Tikun Olam (blog)]] reported with the help of a confidential Israeli source and [[HaMoked]], an Israeli human rights NGO, that Abu Seesi was in an Israeli prison.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2011/03/03/mossad-kidnaps-gazan-engineer-in-ukraine-now-held-incommunicado-in-israeli-prison/|title=Mossad Kidnaps Gazan Engineer in Ukraine, Now Held Incommunicado in Israeli Prison|publisher=Tikun Olam|date=2011-03-03}}</ref> Until that moment, no one knew what had happened after he was kidnapped. A few days after the blog reported this, Dalia Kerstein, executive director of the Israeli human rights [[NGO]], [[HaMoked]]confirmed that the Gazan engineer was indeed in an Israeli prison, which then turned the case into one of [[extraordinary rendition]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2011/03/07/abu-seesi-kidnapped-by-mossad-and-now-in-israels-shikma-prison/|title=Abu Seesi Kidnapped by Mossad and Now in Israel’s Shikma Prison|publisher=Tikun Olam|date=2011-03-07}}</ref> First, he’d been brought to the [[Shabak]] detention facility at [[Petah Tikva]], where he’d been interrogated. Later, he’d been moved to [[Shikma Prison]] outside [[Ashkelon]].
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Dalia Kerstein, executive director of the Israeli human rights [[NGO]], [[HaMoked]], confirmed that the Gazan engineer was in an Israeli prison. Kerstein identified Abu Seesi’s Israeli attorney Michal Orkabi, who confirmed that she represented him, but she could provide no further information due to a security [[gag order]] imposed by the [[Petah Tikva]] Magistrates' Court preventing her from speaking about the case.<ref name="Interfax">{{cite news | url=http://www.interfax.com.ua/eng/main/63529 | title=

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Radio Liberty: Palestinian Dirar Abu Sisi put into Israeli prison on February 19 | publisher=Interfax Ukraine| date=March 16, 2011 | accessdate=March 22, 2011}}</ref><ref name="Mitnick">{{cite news|url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703726904576193032992406562.html|authors=Joshua Mitnick, James Marson|title=Palestinian Missing in Ukraine Turns Up in Israeli Jail||publisher=Wall Street Journal|date=March 11, 2011|accessdate=March 18, 2011}}</ref> On March 20th, the gag order was partially lifted with Israel admitting it was holding Abu Seesi.<ref name="LA Times">{{cite news| url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2011/03/israel-israel-admits-to-holding-missing-gazan-engineer.html | title=ISRAEL: Israel admits to holding missing Gaza engineer | publisher=Los Angeles Times | date=March 21, 2011 | accessdate=March 22, 2011}}</ref>
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Tikun Olam also identified with the help of HaMoked Abu Seesi’s Israeli attorney Michal Orkabi, who confirmed that she represented him, but could provide no further information due to a security [[gag order]] imposed by the [[Petah Tikva]] Magistrates' Court preventing her from speaking about the case.<ref name="Interfax">{{cite news | url=http://www.interfax.com.ua/eng/main/63529 | title=
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Radio Liberty: Palestinian Dirar Abu Sisi put into Israeli prison on February 19 | publisher=Interfax Ukraine| date=March 16, 2011 | accessdate=March 22, 2011}}</ref><ref name="Mitnick">{{cite news|url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703726904576193032992406562.html|authors=Joshua Mitnick, James Marson|title=Palestinian Missing in Ukraine Turns Up in Israeli Jail||publisher=Wall Street Journal|date=March 11, 2011|accessdate=March 18, 2011}}</ref><ref name="Tikun Olam">{{cite news | url=http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2011/03/07/abu-seesi-kidnapped-by-mossad-and-now-in-israels-shikma-prison/ | title=Abu Seesi Kidnapped by Mossad and Now in Israel's Shikma Prison | publisher=Tikun Olam | date=March 7, 2011}}</ref> On March 20th, the gag order was partially lifted with Israel admitting it was holding Abu Seesi.<ref name="LA Times">{{cite news| url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2011/03/israel-israel-admits-to-holding-missing-gazan-engineer.html | title=ISRAEL: Israel admits to holding missing Gaza engineer | publisher=Los Angeles Times | date=March 21, 2011 | accessdate=March 22, 2011}}</ref>


The [[United Nations High Commission for Refugees]] became involved in the case when it determined that Abu Seesi was classified as a refugee. An Associated Press article revealed that the UNHCR's Ukrainian representative asked Ukraine to account for any role its own officials may have played in the disappearance.<ref name="Haaretz">{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/un-official-israel-kidnapped-palestinian-engineer-from-ukraine-1.348413|title=
The [[United Nations High Commission for Refugees]] became involved in the case when it determined that Abu Seesi was classified as a refugee. An Associated Press article revealed that the UNHCR's Ukrainian representative asked Ukraine to account for any role its own officials may have played in the disappearance.<ref name="Haaretz">{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/un-official-israel-kidnapped-palestinian-engineer-from-ukraine-1.348413|title=
UN official: Israel kidnapped Palestinian engineer from Ukraine| publisher=Haaretz| date=March 10, 2011 | accessdate=March 20, 2011}}</ref>
UN official: Israel kidnapped Palestinian engineer from Ukraine| publisher=Haaretz| date=March 10, 2011 | accessdate=March 20, 2011}}</ref>


Veronika Abu Seesi claims that Israel kidnapped him because he was the “brain of the power system” and that he had rebuilt it himself after it was destroyed during [[Operation Cast Lead]] in 2009. The [[Wall Street Journal]] and [[Washington Post]] both report that Abu Seesi had devised a technique enabling the plant to rely solely on diesel fuel supplied by Egypt that could fully power the plant. This would enable it to bypass Israel as its sole source of fuel to run the plant.<ref name="Mitnick" /><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031102615.html|title=Gaza power plant engineer being held in Israeli prison|author=Joel Greenberg|publisher=Washington Post|date=March 11, 2011 | accessdate=March 19, 2011}}</ref> The German weekly ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' indicated that Abu Seesi's abduction was owing to information he had in relation to missing Israeli soldier [[Gilad Shalit]], who is being held by Palestinian militants in Gaza.<ref>{{cite news|title=Palestinian abducted in Ukraine 'has Shalit info'|url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110330/wl_mideast_afp/israelpalestiniansconflictukrainegermanyarrest_20110330160626|accessdate=30 March 2011|newspaper=[[Yahoo! News]]|date=30 March 2011|agency=[[Agence France-Presse{{!}}AFP]]|location=[[Berlin]]|quote=A Palestinian engineer was abducted in Ukraine on an Israeli request because he might know where missing soldier Gilad Shalit is, Germany's Spiegel magazine reported on Wednesday.}}</ref> Israeli Prime Minister [[Benjamin Netanyahu]], in a live interview with [[YouTube]] World View and [[Israeli News Company|Channel Two News]], said that Abu Seesi is a [[Hamas]] man being held in Israel, and he disclosed valuable information.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4049937,00.html|title=Abu Sisi's wife: He never spoke about Shalit|author=Elior Levy|publisher=[[Ynetnews]]|date=March 30, 2011 | accessdate=March 31, 2011}}</ref> Israeli officials were insinuating earlier that Abu Seesi was involved in weaponry for Hamas.<ref name="LA Times" />
Veronika Abu Seesi claims that Israel kidnapped him because he was the “brain of the power system” and that he had rebuilt it himself after it was destroyed during [[Operation Cast Lead]] in 2009. The [[Wall Street Journal]] and [[Washington Post]] both report that Abu Seesi had devised a technique enabling the plant to rely solely on diesel fuel supplied by Egypt that could fully power the plant. This would enable it to bypass Israel as its sole source of fuel to run the plant.<ref name="Mitnick" /><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031102615.html|title=Gaza power plant engineer being held in Israeli prison|author=Joel Greenberg|publisher=Washington Post|date=March 11, 2011 | accessdate=March 19, 2011}}</ref> The German weekly ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' indicated that Abu Seesi's abduction was owing to information he had in relation to missing Israeli soldier [[Gilad Shalit]], who is being held by Palestinian militants in Gaza, though the Shin Bet's charge sheet against him made no mention of Shalit.<ref>{{cite news|title=Palestinian abducted in Ukraine 'has Shalit info'|url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110330/wl_mideast_afp/israelpalestiniansconflictukrainegermanyarrest_20110330160626|accessdate=30 March 2011|newspaper=[[Yahoo! News]]|date=30 March 2011|agency=[[Agence France-Presse{{!}}AFP]]|location=[[Berlin]]|quote=A Palestinian engineer was abducted in Ukraine on an Israeli request because he might know where missing soldier Gilad Shalit is, Germany's Spiegel magazine reported on Wednesday.}}</ref> Israeli Prime Minister [[Benjamin Netanyahu]], in a live interview with [[YouTube]] World View and [[Israeli News Company|Channel Two News]], said that Abu Seesi is a [[Hamas]] man being held in Israel, and that he disclosed valuable information.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4049937,00.html|title=Abu Sisi's wife: He never spoke about Shalit|author=Elior Levy|publisher=[[Ynetnews]]|date=March 30, 2011 | accessdate=March 31, 2011}}</ref> Israeli officials had insinuated earlier that Abu Seesi was involved developing and improving Hamas' missiles.<ref name="LA Times" />


==Indictment==
==Indictment==


On April 4, 2010, Abu Seesi was indicted in a court in [[Beer Sheva]], charged with "membership in a terrorist organization, conspiracy to commit a crime, and the production of illegal weaponry, assistance to an illegal organization and other various crimes". According to the indictment, Abu Seesi was the central developer of the [[Qassam rocket]] among other rockets and tank missiles, was responsible for upgrading older rockets for Hamas and commander of Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam Military Academy.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=215100 | title=Abu Sisi charged with arms development | publisher=The Jerusalem Post | date=April 4, 2011 | accessdate=April 4, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12957071 | title='Abducted' Palestinian Dirar Abu Sisi on Hamas charges' | publisher=BBC News | date=April 4, 2001 | accessdate=April 4, 2011}}</ref>
On April 4, 2010, Abu Seesi was charged by the State prosecutor with "membership in a terrorist organization, conspiracy to commit a crime, and the production of illegal weaponry, assistance to an illegal organization and other various crimes". According to the indictment, Abu Seesi was the central developer of the [[Qassam rocket]] among other rockets and tank missiles, was responsible for upgrading older rockets for Hamas and commander of Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam Military Academy.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=215100 | title=Abu Sisi charged with arms development | publisher=The Jerusalem Post | date=April 4, 2011 | accessdate=April 4, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12957071 | title='Abducted' Palestinian Dirar Abu Sisi on Hamas charges' | publisher=BBC News | date=April 4, 2001 | accessdate=April 4, 2011}}</ref>


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 00:11, 11 April 2011

File:Dirar Abu Sisi-private.jpg
Dirar Abu Seesi

Dirar Abu Seesi or: Abu Sisi (Arabic: ضرار أبو سيسي; born in 1969 in Jordan)[1] is the Deputy Engineer for the Gaza Strip's sole electrical plant, which provides 25% of Gaza's power,[2][3] and, according to charges by Israel's Shin Bet, also a Hamas weapons engineer. In February 2011, he traveled to Ukraine, his wife's native country, to apply for citizenship, after coming to believe that Gaza was no longer a safe place to raise his six children. He was detained by Ukrainian security personnel on a train in Poltava on February 19, and flown to Israel where he was placed in prison.[4] On April 4th, the Shin Bet released the charges against him which claimed he was a rocket engineer for Hamas.

Abduction

On the evening of February 18th, after formally filing the papers for citizenship, Abu Seesi was traveling by train to the Kiev airport for a reunion with his brother Yussef, who was residing in the Netherlands and whom he hadn’t seen in 15 years. Just outside the city of Poltava, two men, whom the family believes were Ukrainian security agents, entered the train and removed Dirar. After that, he disappeared. His wife Veronika, who was in Ukraine at the time as well, didn’t hear from him for a week. During that period of silence, she summoned the Ukrainian press and stated that the Mossad had kidnapped him.[4] On February 27th, the Palestinian Interior Ministry demanded that the Ukrainian Interior Ministry disclose the reasons for his disappearance.[1]

In early March, the Tikun Olam (blog) reported with the help of a confidential Israeli source and HaMoked, an Israeli human rights NGO, that Abu Seesi was in an Israeli prison.[5] Until that moment, no one knew what had happened after he was kidnapped. A few days after the blog reported this, Dalia Kerstein, executive director of the Israeli human rights NGO, HaMokedconfirmed that the Gazan engineer was indeed in an Israeli prison, which then turned the case into one of extraordinary rendition.[6] First, he’d been brought to the Shabak detention facility at Petah Tikva, where he’d been interrogated. Later, he’d been moved to Shikma Prison outside Ashkelon.

Tikun Olam also identified with the help of HaMoked Abu Seesi’s Israeli attorney Michal Orkabi, who confirmed that she represented him, but could provide no further information due to a security gag order imposed by the Petah Tikva Magistrates' Court preventing her from speaking about the case.[3][7][8] On March 20th, the gag order was partially lifted with Israel admitting it was holding Abu Seesi.[9]

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees became involved in the case when it determined that Abu Seesi was classified as a refugee. An Associated Press article revealed that the UNHCR's Ukrainian representative asked Ukraine to account for any role its own officials may have played in the disappearance.[4]

Veronika Abu Seesi claims that Israel kidnapped him because he was the “brain of the power system” and that he had rebuilt it himself after it was destroyed during Operation Cast Lead in 2009. The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post both report that Abu Seesi had devised a technique enabling the plant to rely solely on diesel fuel supplied by Egypt that could fully power the plant. This would enable it to bypass Israel as its sole source of fuel to run the plant.[7][10] The German weekly Der Spiegel indicated that Abu Seesi's abduction was owing to information he had in relation to missing Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who is being held by Palestinian militants in Gaza, though the Shin Bet's charge sheet against him made no mention of Shalit.[11] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a live interview with YouTube World View and Channel Two News, said that Abu Seesi is a Hamas man being held in Israel, and that he disclosed valuable information.[12] Israeli officials had insinuated earlier that Abu Seesi was involved developing and improving Hamas' missiles.[9]

Indictment

On April 4, 2010, Abu Seesi was charged by the State prosecutor with "membership in a terrorist organization, conspiracy to commit a crime, and the production of illegal weaponry, assistance to an illegal organization and other various crimes". According to the indictment, Abu Seesi was the central developer of the Qassam rocket among other rockets and tank missiles, was responsible for upgrading older rockets for Hamas and commander of Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam Military Academy.[13][14]

References

  1. ^ a b "Palestinian Ministry of Interior addresses urgent appeal for Ukrainian Interior Ministry and demands to disclose the reasons for disappearance of Abu Sisi". Palestine Ministry of Interior. February 27, 2011. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
  2. ^ "Gaza power plant reopens after Hamas does deal". Middle East Online. Retrieved March 22, 2011.
  3. ^ a b "Radio Liberty: Palestinian Dirar Abu Sisi put into Israeli prison on February 19". Interfax Ukraine. March 16, 2011. Retrieved March 22, 2011.
  4. ^ a b c "UN official: Israel kidnapped Palestinian engineer from Ukraine". Haaretz. March 10, 2011. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
  5. ^ "Mossad Kidnaps Gazan Engineer in Ukraine, Now Held Incommunicado in Israeli Prison". Tikun Olam. 2011-03-03.
  6. ^ "Abu Seesi Kidnapped by Mossad and Now in Israel's Shikma Prison". Tikun Olam. 2011-03-07.
  7. ^ a b "Palestinian Missing in Ukraine Turns Up in Israeli Jail". Wall Street Journal. March 11, 2011. Retrieved March 18, 2011. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help); Cite uses deprecated parameter |authors= (help)
  8. ^ "Abu Seesi Kidnapped by Mossad and Now in Israel's Shikma Prison". Tikun Olam. March 7, 2011.
  9. ^ a b "ISRAEL: Israel admits to holding missing Gaza engineer". Los Angeles Times. March 21, 2011. Retrieved March 22, 2011.
  10. ^ Joel Greenberg (March 11, 2011). "Gaza power plant engineer being held in Israeli prison". Washington Post. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
  11. ^ "Palestinian abducted in Ukraine 'has Shalit info'". Yahoo! News. Berlin. AFP. 30 March 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2011. A Palestinian engineer was abducted in Ukraine on an Israeli request because he might know where missing soldier Gilad Shalit is, Germany's Spiegel magazine reported on Wednesday.
  12. ^ Elior Levy (March 30, 2011). "Abu Sisi's wife: He never spoke about Shalit". Ynetnews. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
  13. ^ "Abu Sisi charged with arms development". The Jerusalem Post. April 4, 2011. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
  14. ^ "'Abducted' Palestinian Dirar Abu Sisi on Hamas charges'". BBC News. April 4, 2001. Retrieved April 4, 2011.

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