Veronika Abu-Sisi, the wife of Palestinian engineer Dirar Abu-Sisi kidnapped in Ukraine in February, is set to file lawsuits against Israel and Ukraine with the European Court of Human Rights, the Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper said on April 5.
A day earlier Israeli prosecutors issued an indictment to D. Abu-Sisi. He is being charged with collaborating with the radical Palestinian movement Hamas, attempted murder and developing and upgrading Kassam missiles used by terrorists.
"All charges brought against my husband have been fabricated by Israel to justify this kidnapping and illegal arrest," Veronika Abu-Sisi told Kommersant-Ukraine, adding that information about the university attended by her husbanded was untrue. The indictment mentions the Military Engineering Academy, whereas he graduated from the Zaporizhia Machine Building Institute.
"We will sue Israel and Ukraine at the ECHR and prove that charges against Dirar are baseless, and Israel is pursuing an unacceptably aggressive policy against Palestine by kidnapping its citizens in other countries," Abu-Sisi said.
Israeli media outlets said earlier that Israeli prosecutors sent the information in the case against Palestinian engineer D. Abu-Sisi to a court in Beersheba. "The indictment against Palestinian engineer Dirar Abu-Sisi who has been jailed in Israel for 40 days now was submitted on Monday," the Haaretz newspaper said on its website on Monday, adding that the Beersheba court chose to keep details of the indictment confidential.
Abu-Sisi is charged of being a Hamas member and involved in weapons production.
For its part The Jerusalem Post said that Abu-Sisi is suspected of developing missiles. "The Palestinian engineer is charged with collaborating with a terrorist group involved in the production of illegal missiles, he is known as the "missile godfather of Hamas," the newspaper’s website said.
Abu-Sis is the main designer of Kassam missiles and anti-tank missiles in the Gaza Strip, the report said.
According to the indictment, Abu-Sisi’s teacher Kostiantin Petrovych from Kharkiv Military Engineering Academy was an expert on jet-propelled missiles; Abu-Sisi gained extensive expertise in the field of missile development, and secretly joined Hamas while working as a power plant engineer.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier that Abu-Sisi might have cooperated with Hamas. The Palestinian himself, his family and Hamas officials deny any cooperation. Israel restricted media access to this case, citing national security reasons.
It was reported earlier that Abu-Sisi, director of a power plant in the Gaza Strip, boarded a Kharkiv-Kyiv train on February 18. Two hours later two men who produced IDs of special services officers took him off the train.
Abu-Sisi is married to a Ukrainian and has six children. He spent 12 years in Gaza and tried to get Ukraine’s citizenship.
A number of media reported on March 10 that Abu-Sisi is in an Israeli prison. Israeli authorities officially confirmed this report on March 21.
German magazine Der Spiegel said Israeli authorities were trying to obtain from Abu-Sisi information on Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit abducted by Hamas in 2006.
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