Israel and the Hamas view ceasefire - New York Times

A drastic reduction in activity represented, because Hamas an anti-tank missile at an Israeli school bus on Thursday, a 16-year-old boy and setting fired wounding critical way by the Israeli aerial, artillery and tank fire rate against targets in Gaza, 18 Palestinians of getoetet10 of which were militant and the rest civilians, according to officials in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas and other militant groups raised about 130 mortar shells and rockets, including several mid-range-ones, in the southern Israel in the last three days.

Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak, said Sunday that Israel had received several messages that Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls, Gaza, was interested in a cease-fire.

"If they fire on our communities to stop, we will stop trigger," said Mr Barak Israel Radio.

Hamas spokesman offered similar messages. Ghazi Hamad, the Deputy Foreign Minister who radio said Hamas led Government in the Gaza Strip, Israel: "we are interested in peace in the Gaza Strip, but also that the Israeli army to cease operations against our people."

Salah al-Bardaweel, a spokesman for Hamas, said that Israel have accepted the idea of reducing the hostilities. "The groups of the lull to, as long as Israel is,", said Mr Bardaweel.

The Hamas led Government said, that helped regional and European parties to achieve the slowdown. He thanked Egypt, but not the other mediators to call.

Still, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that if the attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers, "the answer very be hard."

Strategy towards Gaza, still further escalation with the potential for a total conflagration would be warned that a return to the quiet tense, pushed the largely in the last two years not the lack of a coherent balance Israeli Israeli analysts before that, prevents.

"I think, as far as Israel is concerned, we remain policy, a policy," said Efraim Halevy, former Chief of the Israeli secret service Mossad, who now head of the Shasha Centre for strategic studies at the Hebrew University. Israel, he said has "sit down and work out a policy, whether the Hamas to destroy, or whether it is something else."

"People have to understand, what is the ultimate goal," he said, adding that Hamas, must make some decisions.

During the relative calm of the last two years, both Israel and Hamas have upgraded weapons at your disposal.

The latest escalation began as the military wing of Hamas a Kornet anti-tank missile on the school bus from a distance of about two miles raised. It was an advanced, the first time Lasergelenkte weapon against a civilian target used.

Hamas said the attack was to avenge Israel's killing of three of the fighters of the group, on 2 April an Act, the Hamas said violated a previous cease-fire.

In a further development, which has changed the equation in the region, Israel's new iron dome missile defense system antirocket managed to catch eight of the nine destroy group tourism rockets of the Gaza Strip to cities in South Israel, them in the air.

The success of system, iron Dome, subjected to still evaluation, increases prevent additional damage and the Israelis sense of security. Mr. Barak, the Defense Minister, the Government with additional flexibility available said it provided and allowed on appropriate decision making.

However, independent commentators noted that the iron dome system could protect not Israeli communities near the border and not the possibility of Hamas or Israel includes carrying out a strike, that a large civilian toll, also unintentionally hinausgejagt and set off a war.

Despite its clear benefits, the new antirocket system "serves as no real solution," wrote Ben Caspit, columnist in the newspaper Maariv on Sunday. "The problem of Hamas in Gaza goes to the root, is strategic in nature and will be resolved not by the purchase of domes of various kinds."

Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections in 2006 and then took a year later after a short factional war full control of Gaza. The Group has lost popularity, which escalate to speculation, that you can have tensions with Israel to create a distraction. A Palestinian poll in March found that two-thirds of the residents of the Gaza Strip supported demonstrations in favour of the change of Government.

But Amos Gilad, a senior official in the Israeli Defense Ministry, told reporters last week that the Palestinians would have to be removed work of Hamas.

Last month, a merchant ship in the open sea Israel intercepted and seized weapons, including six advanced antiship missiles, which it said is bound for Gaza. Hamas holds an Israeli soldier, Staff Sgt. Gilad Shalit, captured in a cross-border RAID and Gaza 2006 meeting.

Fares Akram contributed reporting from Gaza.

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Israel invites UN war crimes of Envoy in Gaza a sensation - BBC News

5 April 2011, last updated at 12: 40 GMT Richard Goldstone under the leadership of the UN Gaza request in the year 2009 has Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai UN war crimes prosecutor, Richard Goldstone, invited to visit Israel.

The move comes after Mr Goldstone key findings of a UN report, Israel withdrawn targeted civilians during its offensive 22-day in the Gaza Strip two years ago accused.

The South African lawyer who is Jewish, had in Israel of the report findings been vilified.

But Mr Yishai now welcomed the retraction and invited him to Israel.

The Israeli Minister of the Interior told Army Radio that he had offered a tour of the southern Israeli communities Mr Goldstone, the decades have endured the Palestinian rocket attacks.

U turn

The Goldstone report, published potential war crimes of Israel and the Palestinian militant group, Hamas in September 2009 completed, while the 2008-2009 Gaza conflict were committed.

Israel refused to cooperate with the investigation accuse the Panel of is distorted. It, however, lead independent investigations in more than 400 allegations of misconduct.

An opinion piece in the Washington Post on Friday wrote Mr Goldstone, that the Israeli research recognised by a UN Committee, pointed out that "civilians not intentionally were targeted as a matter of policy".

Israel has since demanded that the UN scrap the report.

But the UN Human Rights Commission has said that it is in the report. A spokesman said that Mr Goldstone would submit a formal request if he wanted it changed.

Israel says, that it launched operation cast lead in response to repeated rocket attacks on Israeli territory by militant in Gaza.

Some 1,400 Palestinians have been killed, including hundreds of civilians as 13 Israelis.

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On the eve of which announces meeting in Washington, Israel more housing - New York Times

The steps, by two separate agencies, are the latest in a series of clumsy, timed housing announcements. Ways search on international player, who last year into the ground to a halt in September, when passed a partial Israeli moratorium on new building in the settlements, Israeli Palestinian peace talks resume.

Washington has given its efforts to convince Israel to commit an additional settlement freeze; the Palestinians refuse to, negotiations with Israel as long as building settlement.

On Monday, a municipal planning Committee in Jerusalem gave provisional approval for almost 1,000 new housing units in the residential district of Gilo, in the South of the city. And the Israeli Ministry of Defense said it zoning plans for more Jewish settlements in the West Bank, retroactive legalization construction, which was already under way were completed.

Aides traveling with Mr Peres, refused on Monday in Washington was, commenting on the plan.

Elie Isaacson, Advisor of Mayor NIR Barkat of Jerusalem, said there was no connection between the action of Gilo and the timing of Mr Peres visit.

"There are no secrets whatsoever," said Mr Isaacson. "The plan by a bureaucratic level is bureaucratic level to the next." "The buildings policy in Jerusalem has the same 40 years."

He added that area of the privately owned was land before 10 years for construction zones, and that it would take at least five years for the new housing final approval and for the contractor to follow way. And he said, in the Community whereas draws hundreds of requests from Palestinians for building in Jerusalem, despite Palestinian projects on a smaller scale tend to.

Mr Peres is expected to speak with Mr Obama of security cooperation between Israel and the United States; the recent upheavals in the Middle East and the potential for the democratisation in the region; and ways of restarting the peace talks. A question that may arise is whether Mr Obama go to Israel this year will be to make a major speech, and if so whether he is provided an American peace plan. Management officials say Mr Obama has said, he would like to address of Israelis to a range of issues, including the turbulence in the Middle East development. But timing remains a problem, an administration of official said Monday.

The role of President in Israel is mainly a ceremonial, but Mr Peres, is internationally regarded as an elder statesman, has a more active role than most of his predecessors. Relations between Mr Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Mr Peres were met from beginning of cool, and in a departure from the diplomatic standards, Mr Obama in 2009, Mr Netanyahu has to try to smooth the way.

The question of the settlement construction has hooked strongly Israeli American relations, because Mr Obama took office.

Gilo is in a part of the city that Israel annexed to the record it from Jordan in the 1967 war. Most Israelis consider it an integral area of Jerusalem, but to the Palestinians and much of the world, it is a settlement in the occupied territory in violation of international law. Israel's claim to sovereignty in the area of Jerusalem on the 1967 lines is not internationally recognised, and the Palestinians claim as part of their future State.

February 14, a resolution supported the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council demanding halt in called it illegal construction in Israeli settlements so. Only a veto of the United States block the resolution.

Peace now, an Israeli advocacy group that against all Israeli building beyond the 1967 lines, said that the Department of Defense development plans approved for four settlements in the West Bank. But it is not clear whether the plans relating to areas that are already above or integrated for more sites.

Tensions over building in Jerusalem reached here American support for Israel to underline in March 2010, when Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was on a visit. Administration announced 1,600 new housing units for Jews in Ramat Shlomo in East Jerusalem, the Obama annoying the Israeli Ministry of the Interior. Mr Netanyahu said at the time, which had attacked the movement; the Interior Minister, Eli Yishai, Chairman of the party agents right, insisted that the timing was coincidental.

After this episode, Prime of Minister's Office said it would pursue to prevent the progress of the building plans more carefully new surprises.

But in November, Israel published plans for more than 1,000 residential units in other disputed areas of Jerusalem. This announcement was days before Mr Netanyahu with Mr Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in the United States, drawing criticism from Mr Obama fulfilled.

Mr Netanyahu were Office known weeks three ago, that hundreds of new units for settlements in the West Bank in areas Israel intends to keep under any deal with the Palestinians, have been approved. The news came shortly after five members of one family, including three children, were killed in the settlement of Itamar.

Helene Cooper contributed reporting from Washington.

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Minister ya'alon: Israel expected UN fully withdraw Goldstone report - HA' Ha'aretz

Israel expected the United Nations to withdraw of a damning report of his behaviour during the Gaza war 2008 and early 2009, Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe in end Ya'alon said on Sunday.

Yaalon's comments came as Israel's Government has been said, a diplomatic and public relations campaign in the next few days, benefit in their favor, start in the article published by Judge Richard Goldstone in the Washington Post on 1 April of the UN investigation, which he in operation cast lead led.

The possibilities when heard in Jerusalem to try and convince Goldstone of United Nations request, that his article has become an official UN document. In the article, Goldstone said that subsequent investigations of Israel more than 400 cases in which soldiers had suspected deliberately targeting Palestinian civilians led him to the conclusion that there no such deliberate attacks on civilians. "If I had then known what I know now," the South African lawyer wrote "The Goldstone report would have been a different document.",

During a briefing said for foreign journalists ya'alon Sunday that Israel are expected that the United Nations to fully withdraw its report on alleged atrocities committed by the Israeli army during the Gaza.

"We hope that Goldstone you will send a letter to the UN Secretary General and the accusations deletes leveled against Israel in his distorted report" Ya'alon said.

For his part, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said yesterday, that "Israel force Goldstone before international forums, in particular with the United Nations must appear."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was even more ambitious in demand that the entire report annulled that something, which is very unlikely. Netanyahu assigned to national security adviser Yaakov Amidror, a joint team of employees of the justice, foreign policy and defence ministries with the formulation of political and legal recommendations according to Goldstone's article set up.

While Netanyahu, said the yesterday's Cabinet meeting that "We will try, some of the damage to undo" and it was his goal "cancelled the report see."

But sources said the Foreign Ministry, in the best circumstances, possible for the UN General Assembly to conclude it could be, that a previous resolution passed a year ago, which fully accepted the Goldstone report adopt a new resolution, is no longer valid.

"In the current international realities, in the light of Israel's standing and the deadlock in the peace process, it is difficult to imagine that such a scenario repeating," a source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, commenting on the previous instance in a UN resolution income - 1991, with the withdrawal of the infamous 1975 General Assembly resolution 3379, which equated Zionism with racism.

In the meantime, Goldstone's was criticized article in the Washington Post of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.

Nabil Abu Rudeina, spokesman for Palestinian Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas, declaration one that the change in the attitude does not change the fact that Israel massacred civilians in the Gaza Strip the Goldstone and some 1500 Palestinians killed. And in an interview with the Palestinian daily Al-Ayam said Fatah figure Nabil Sha Shaath, Goldstone probably pressure in writing his play was had. Members of the Hamas leadership made similar remarks.

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Author of the report citing Israel backtracks

Richard Goldstone, under the direction of the UN Commission investigating Israel's war against Hamas forces in 2008 09.Goldstone report was criticism of Israel and Hamas in Gaza FightingIt devoted himself to more accusations of Israeli war, which now says CrimesIts author, that he would come up with different FindingsIsraeli would have more cooperative, he writes in a Washington Post op-ed PieceRead the report of the United Nations fact finding mission to the Gaza conflict (PDF)

(CNN) --der Chairman of the UN Commission whose report against Hamas Israel measures amounting to war crimes accused says that he would have reached different conclusions if the Israeli army had more forthcoming and if he had known the results of subsequent investigations.

"If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone report another document, would", wrote Richard Goldstone, a former South African lawyer, in a Washington Post op-ed column Friday.

Israel already long critical of the conclusions of the UN Human Rights Council on its war against the Hamas in Gaza on Saturday in 2008-09, presented called for the body to cancel the results.

"Everything we said proved true,", said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "Civilians, its institutions and bodies are deliberately worthy Israel not intentionally damage while the Hamas fired on innocent civilians and tested everything." "The fact that Goldstone may traced the shelves of this report a for once to lead."

There was no immediate response from Hamas.

Goldstone report, in September 2009, said Israel and Hamas probably war crimes and crimes against humanity committed 18 possible during the conflict between 27 December 2008 and January 2009.

Civilian targets that deliberate is the supposed crimes of Hamas only of course - its missiles were targeted and indiscriminately target.
--Richard Goldstone, published Friday in a Washington Post op-ed

Israeli investigations found cases relating to individual soldiers, but the deliberate targeting of civilians by Israel was not a "question of politics," Goldstone writes now.

Israel began the offensive against Gaza militants in response to continuous firing of rockets against southern Israeli towns.

The UN Human Rights Council, the Goldstone and others associated with the fact-finding mission, approved the controversial report, which focused more on alleged war crimes committed by Israel.

Israel provided to justify the United Nations with a report of his actions later. Israel said it faced "asymmetrical conflicts" and "militant operation from within and behind civilian areas" the blame for the placement of civilians at risk.

In his column, Goldstone cited a subsequent report by a UN Committee of independent experts, which found that Israel examined more than 400 allegations of misconduct during Hamas "no studies on the introduction of rocket and mortar has carried out attacks against Israel."

", That supposedly goes deliberate crimes of Hamas of course scale - its rockets deliberately and indiscriminately at civilian targets addressed," Goldstone wrote Friday.

Goldstone said Israel conducted proceedings in a public forum and during the Panel investigation increased cooperation should have.

"Israel's lack of cooperation with our investigation meant that we could confirm civilians were killed as many residents of the Gaza Strip and how many fighters," wrote in the Washington Post article Goldstone, adding Israeli has completed only a few of his investigations.

Asked whether the Israeli Government should have worked with the Goldstone Commission from the beginning, said Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on Saturday that the Government did not set a precedent for facilities, which it considers enemy in Government decision making intervention want.

Hamas, Goldstone said, continue to fire and mortar rounds rockets at civilian targets in southern Israel and should be condemned by the Human Rights Council.

The judge wrote that military commanders "difficult battlefield decisions" and that he is convinced Israel examined according to the death of 29 members of a family. "The bombing of the House was apparently the result of the Commander of an Israeli faulty interpretation of an image is drone, and Israeli officer ordered subject of investigation for the attack."

"Although the regret Israeli evidence that since the publication of our report has emerged not negate the tragic loss of civilian life, I, that explain our fact finding mission not evidence the circumstances in which we said that it targeted civilians in the Gaza Strip warenweil our experience with intentionality and war crimes", probably influenced have would "Goldstone wrote."

Goldstone said since 2009, market-friendly new procedures for the protection of civilians, the use of white phosphorus in civilian areas limit report, Israel Defense Forces.

Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for human rights the death toll in World War II in 1,419 and said that those were 1.167 "Civilians." The Israeli military released own data, by he claimed you 1.166 people came, and that 60 percent of those were "Terror activists."

In 2009, when the Goldstone report came out, called Ibrahim Khraishi, the Palestinian Authority Ambassador to the United Nations, professional and impartial.

"This report another report should not be only document and archive", Khraishi said. "Not this Council will forgive my people, if they get away with these criminals."

But the United States, which together with the European Union considers a terrorist organisation Hamas, the report said "was deeply flawed."

Alejandro Wolff, Deputy U.S. of representative to the United Nations, the report and "unbalanced focus on Israel, that it draws negative conclusions about Israel's intentions and actions, which do not adequately with the asymmetric nature of the conflict in Gaza behandelnund their failure" criticized in February 2010, Hamas responsibility for deliberately targeting to civilians and support assign itself and its operations in civilian densely populated urban areas. "

Saturday to Israel's channel 2 said, Israel Liberman, "I would like to congratulate Goldstone's new conclusions, but I am not surprised by them." "We knew the truth, and we had no doubts that it would finally come out."CNN's Kevin contributed flower in Jerusalem to this report

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Diplomatic memo: in Israel, time for peace offer expired

The Palestinian Authority has built steadily a movement support for such a solution in September, which could place Israel in a diplomatic vise. Israel would land a colleague include United Nations, country has controlled it and let you in a two State solution to keep expected for more than four decades and some of which are occupied.

"We are facing a diplomatic and political tsunami that the majority of the population is unaware of and, the top of in September," said Ehud Barak, Israel's Defense Minister, at a Conference in Tel Aviv last month. "It is a very dangerous situation, an action is required." He added: "rhetoric, paralysis, inaction will deepen the isolation of Israel."

With helper which proposals for the Palestinians is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thrashing President Shimon Peres at the White House due on Tuesday to meet with President Obama and possibilities of the binding. The United States is the process for forward, according to diplomats here move always still uncertain.

Israel's offer is expected that some West Bank territory outside the settlements on Palestinian control transfer contain and may propose a regional component - an International Conference, in response to the Arab League to serve peace initiatives.

But Palestinian leaders, encouraged by support for their statehood bids, the expected offer as inadequate to dismiss and continue to building demand an end of the settlement before talks can begin.

"We want to create pressure on Israel to it feel isolated and understand that it can be no talks without stopover in settlements, help me not", said Nabil Schaath, the the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Fatah, who heads the largest party of the Palestinian Authority. "Without this, our goal of membership in the United Nations is General Assembly in September."

Western Israeli and Palestinian officials to the dead end, most of them interviewed request anonymity, expressed by an unusual degree of pessimism about a peaceful solution. All agree that the turmoil in the Middle East had led opposing responses from Israel and large parts of the world.

The prospect of even more hostile governments than its neighbors, insists on caution and before significant steps see Israel. It will also in extensive create long-term security guarantees in a two State solution, but which inevitably violate the sovereignty of a Palestinian State.

The opposite conclusion tend to draw the international community. Foreign Minister William Hague in the UK, for example, that one of the most important lessons learned from the Arabic source was, that "legitimate wish not be ignored and must be addressed." said last week, He added "It can not in anyone's interest, when the new order in the region at a time when of the minimum hope in the peace process is determined.", referring to the Israeli Palestinian talks,

The Palestinian focus on September is based not only on the fact, the General Assembly then contains its annual meeting. It is announced that his Government would be ready in two years on independent statehood and that Mr Obama last year said in September that he be declared the framework for an independent Palestinian State Prime Minister Fayyad as Salam in September 2009, expected in a year.

Mr Obama does not specify what would be the borders of that State, provided that they would be determined by direct negotiations. But with Israeli Palestinian talks canceled months ago and in the Middle East in the process of profound change, many argue that pressure is required from the outside.

Germany, France, and Great Britain say, that negotiations are based should to the 1967 lines with corresponding land swaps what exactly has rejected Netanyahu's Government, because it says that it determines the result of the total mass.

"Think the world is it that is going to Israel 1967 lines declare force and lack of Jerusalem as a basis for the negotiations?" asked a top of Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity. "This will never happen."

While the Obama in 1967 as a basis for talks described administration in the past on the lines, it has the United Nations and Russia decided again not whether the European Union - the other members of the so-called Quartet - in this starting point to declare, said diplomats. The Quartet meets in Berlin on 15 April.

Israel, the hundreds of thousands of Jews in the West has put into Bank and East Jerusalem, admits that it to withdraw from the large tract of land, which now it will have taken it. But it hopes the major settlement blocks and much of East Jerusalem, as well as the border in the East with Jordan record and wants to enter in talks with the other side of position as a starting point.

President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt was ahead of its closest allies in the Arab world, by the power driven, helps fuel protest movements elsewhere in the now roil, including Jordan, which has its own peace agreement with Israel.

"We presented, are grounded in security arrangements, because of the what is regional,", said Zalman Shoval, one of the few Netanyahu aides drafting of the Israeli proposal, which can be delivered as a speech at the Congress of the United States in May. "We are facing as Iran grows strongly the rebirth of the eastern front." We need to back up the Jordan Valley. "And no Israeli Government will quickly move tens of thousands of Israelis from their homes."

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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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