document: Mossad 's not so secret operation A scandal is flaring up after the arrest of a Palestinian engineer was confirmed by the Israeli government . Dirar Abu Sisi , suspected of links with Hamas , vanished from a train near Kiev on February 19 , allegedly kidnapped by Mossad . Dirar Abu Sisi appeared in court on Thursday for a hearing on extending his detention . Prosecutors asked the court to allow the Palestinian to be held for five more days after which he would be officially charged . At this stage , the story seems to have more questions than answers . The Palestinian engineer went missing while traveling from the Ukrainian city of Kharkov to Kiev . Two men reportedly walked into his compartment , produced IDs of special services officers and removed him from the train . A sequence of mysterious events then unfolded , confusing not only the family of the kidnapped engineer and the media , but even the Ukrainian officials . Some reported that he turned up at the Israeli prison the next day after he had been abducted ; later a number of media reported the same information but only on March 10 . Israeli authorities officially confirmed this report on March 20 , when the Israeli court bowed to human rights activists and admitted that Sisi was being kept in jail in Israel , according to Itar-Tass news agency . Finally , the situation became more or less clear when the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly admitted on Thursday that the man had indeed been kept in prison in Israel saying : '' `` Abu Sisi is a Hamas member . He is being held in Israel . He supplied us with valuable information . '' '' But Netanyahu did not elaborate . Abu Sisi 's alleged connection to Hamas was named by the media , almost straight away , as one of the reasons for such drastic actions . However , both he and his Ukrainian wife Veronika deny all allegations . Moreover , Veronika appealed to the UN High Commission for Refugees to address the issue . She believes that the kidnapping was performed by the Israeli intelligence service , Mossad . '' `` How can I explain to my children that their father was n't killed by a bomb in Palestine but disappeared from a train in a democratic country ? '' '' she told Ukraine 's Kyiv Post . According to Abu Sisi 's account that he gave to the lawyer who was allowed to visit him in jail - from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights -LRB- PCRH -RRB- , a Gaza-based NGO - the people who abducted him on the train wore Ukrainian military uniform , they took his documents by force , then removed him from the train and drove him to Kiev . He says he was held and interrogated in an apartment by individuals who identified themselves as members of Mossad . Another reason for such actions , as speculated by the Israeli media , is Sisi 's possible connection to the kidnapping of an Israeli Defense Forces soldier , Gilad Schalit , and the belief that Sisi knows his current whereabouts . Noam Shalit , the father of abducted IDF soldier , even called on the family of the detained Palestinian engineer on Thursday to pressure Hamas to reach a deal that would bring about the release of his son , reports Israeli Haaretz newspaper . After appearing in court on Thursday , Abu Sisi , when asked , told the press : '' `` I do n't know anything about Gilad Shalit . I do n't know anything . I 'm an engineer , '' '' as quoted by The Guardian . According to the Jerusalem Post 's report on Friday , when asked about the possibility of Sisi being exchanged for Schalit , prime minister Netanyahu declined to comment . However , Israel 's defense minister , Ehud Barak , in an interview to Israel Army radio said that : '' `` He did n't organize the abduction or guard Schalit but he is a person with intimate internal information on Hamas . '' '' What seems to be particularly intriguing in the whole story is how exactly the engineer was removed from Ukraine . RT spoke to a former security officer in the country who said that in case of a planned operation between the two countries ' intelligence services , the man would simply be arrested quietly and deported . In this case , however , both the Ukrainian intelligence and the Interior Ministry have said they had no idea of such a plan by their Israeli counterparts . Moreover , Ukraine 's Interior Minister , Aleksandr Mogilyov , is set to visit Israel , to try to find out more details behind the operation , which the Ukrainian side claims it was not notified about . The unfolding story , a thriller of its kind , is not the first time that Israeli intelligence has undertaken such acts . In January 2010 , a man believed to be connected to the Hamas terrorist cell , was assassinated in a hotel in Dubai . Eleven men with fake French , Irish and other passports were put on the international wanted list by the UAE . However , that story seems far from being resolved , despite the fact that Israel did not deny Mossad 's involvement .
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