Palestinian engineer kidnapped are displayed in the Ukraine, in Israel Court - ABC Online

MARK COLVIN: In a cold, dark night a man from a train of two men allegedly foreign agents, kidnapped, is to take him from his car and spirit him of the country.

No, there is no Graham Greene, an Eric Ambler or an Alan furst, it is a true story that happened in February in the Ukraine.

Links to Hamas and details of the disappearance of an Israeli soldier believed the abducted man is a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip almost five years ago.

And the abduction is allegedly the work of Israel spy agency, Mossad.

Struts you East correspondent Anne Barker reports with.

ANNE BARKER: The night of 18 February, Dirar Abu Sisi, the Technical Director of Gaza was in power station, travel a night train in the Ukraine. His wife Veronika is Ukrainian - and Abu Sisi was citizenship request.

But wake up sometime in the night train, two men came to his carriage and took him.
Within hours he was on a level set and where he since has been flown to Israel and detained at Shikma prison South of Tel Aviv.

His lawyer Smadar Natan Ben says that she suspected that were Israeli Mossad agents behind the kidnapping.

SMADAR BEN NATAN: Alleged Israeli appeared even in the Ukraine.

ANNE BARKER: What can you give me then about the nature of that kidnap say?

SMADAR BEN NATAN: Well I can tell you, it was a kidnapping with no formal extradition procedures. And I know where I presented with no arrest warrant. Only, a powerful extraordinary delivery from one country to another.

ANNE BARKER: is it your understanding, that the Ukrainian authorities were complicit in this abduction?

SMADAR BEN NATAN: It is very possible that they were accomplices. It is very hard to imagine how to so kidnapped a person and of the local authorities flown from one country to another without some assistance.

ANNE BARKER: ABC has many authorities in Israel and the Ukraine no luck as Abu Sisi's tries to contact Mrs Veronika. Comment is not simply Israeli authorities, although they do not deny that it was Israeli agents abducted him.

But she will not answer questions about the legality or illegality of the seizure of someone on foreign soil without a warrant or this them of the country, without applying for extradition.

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, told Israeli television Abu Sisi is a member of the Hamas Israel as terrorist organization understands and that his detention at least is legal.

"Abu Sisi of Hamas," he said. "He is in custody in Israel." He is legally in all rules place. "I can only say that he has provided useful information."

(Question from the interviewer)

Asked what the details and whether it refers to the case of the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit of the Prime Minister would no longer say.

But Abu Sisi in Court yesterday insisted he was innocent and said the accusations against him are all lies. He confirmed he is been interrogated about Gilad Shalit, but he and his lawyer said that he knows nothing.

SMADAR BEN NATAN: He is not a terrorist at all. And he is person or member not even a Hamas. He is a professional. He was not a political person in any way, not a military person, of course. They live in Gaza know a lot of things and will you know other things in a senior position in the electricity company. But I don't think he knew no more than that.

ANNE BARKER: Abu Sisi's family now has begun legal proceedings in the Ukraine to try to force Ukrainian authorities to his return from Israel request on the grounds he supplied nor sold was.

If that fails, they have pressure against Israel appealed to the European Court of human rights and the United Nations.

But even if one is to find Abu Sisi's, of them questionable whether Israel would comply with the results.

This is Anne Barker in Jerusalem, reporting for PM.

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