Engineer Dirar Abu Sisi, who headed Hamas’ ‘terrorist military academy’ in Gaza, extended the range of Qassam rockets to kill even more innocent Jewish civilians in Israel.
By Ari Soffer
An Israeli court sentenced a Palestinian engineer from Gaza to 21 years in jail Tuesday for helping the Islamist terrorist movement Hamas to improve the range of rockets used against the Jewish state.
Dirar Abu Sisi went missing in Ukraine in February 2011, and Israel said a month later that he was in its custody and would be put on trial. He was apparently arrested in an operation by Israeli secret service agents.
A court in the southern city of Beersheba had convicted Abu Sisi of several “crimes against the security of the state.”
In particular, he was said to have helped improve the range of the domestically-made Qassam rockets that Hamas’s “military wing,” the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades – has repeatedly fired at Israeli civilians from the Gaza Strip over the years. Continue Reading »