German weekly says Gazan may have intel

Israel is holding a Palestinian engineer from Gaza because of his alleged ties to Hamas and possible knowledge of Gilad Shalit, Dir Spiegel reported.

Last week an Israeli court partly removed a gag order concerning Dirar Abu Sisi, 42, who allegedly was abducted while in the Ukraine and brought back to Israel.

The German weekly said Western intelligence circles said Ukrainian agents kidnapped Abu Sisi on a train in Kiev in February and later handed him over to Israeli officials.

One informant told the weekly Israel believes Abu Sisi is a high ranking Hamas official who knows a number of secrets.

“If Mossad goes to such an expense and interrogates the man for six weeks, then he must know something Israel absolutely wants to hear,” an unnamed source told the German weekly. If Abu Sisi was just an “irritant,” he would have simply been killed, the source said.

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