Mahmud al-Mabhuh

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Mahmud al-Mabhuh ( Arabic محمود المبحوح, DMG Maḥmūd al-Mabḥūḥ ; * February 14, 1960 in Jabaliya ; † January 19, 2010 in Dubai ) was a high-ranking member of the radical Islamic Hamas and is considered a co-founder of the Kassam Brigades . The Israeli secret service Mossad is held responsible for his killing.

Life

Mabhuh was born in a refugee camp three kilometers north of Jabaliya in the Gaza Strip . He had 13 siblings. He broke off his school education, did an apprenticeship as a car mechanic and then opened a workshop.

In 1978 Mabhuh joined the Muslim Brotherhood . In 1986 Mabhuh was arrested by the Israeli security authorities for illegally possessing weapons. At the end of the 1980s he was one of the first members of Hamas, which emerged from the Muslim Brotherhood .

Mabhuh was responsible for the kidnapping and murder of the two Israeli soldiers Ilan Saadon and Avi Sasportas in 1989 at the beginning of the first Palestinian uprising (1987-1993). After his death, Al Jazeera broadcast a confession video in which Mabhuh confessed. The video also said he was proud to end up as a martyr and was nicknamed the Fox because of at least three surviving attacks on his life . After the crime, Mabhuh is said to have gone into exile in Syria , where, according to his family, he ran a small textile factory. In 2003 he was reportedly imprisoned in an Egyptian prison for several months. Before his death, according to media reports, he was said to have smuggled weapons with particularly long ranges from Iran, Sudan and Egypt into the Gaza Strip.

assassination

Investigation by the Dubai police

Room of the Rotana Hotel ( Dubai ) where Mahmud al-Mabhuh was murdered.

On January 20, 2010, Mabhuh was found dead in room 230 of the Al Bustan Rotana Hotel in Dubai. Initially, it was assumed that the person would die of natural causes, until the responsible police in Dubai stated that Mabhuh was " stunned with an electric shock in his hotel room and then probably suffocated with a pillow". After a forensic medical report, the police in Dubai announced that Mabhuh was first anesthetized with a sedative and then suffocated. The police in Dubai presented images from the surrounding surveillance cameras at a press conference on February 15, 2010.

The emirate's chief of police announced that it would apply for arrest warrants against a total of eleven suspects with European passports. On February 18, Interpol wrote to the 11 suspects identified by Dubai for a search. According to the daily Al-Chaleedsch , the chief of police assumed that the alleged perpetrators and their helpers had traveled to the United States and Israel after the murder. 16 more suspects were put out to be searched by Interpol on March 8th.

In the course of the investigation, the responsible police chief, Dahi Chalfan Tamim , stated that the investigations "99 percent" would point to the Israeli secret service Mossad as the client. In addition, two Palestinians living in the Emirates were arrested, one of whom confessed to having "provided logistical assistance". The investigation also revealed that a Hamas member played an important role in the planning by disclosing information about Mabhuh's whereabouts. Police chief Tamim called on Hamas to conduct an internal investigation.

Hamas

According to a report in the Israeli daily Haaretz on February 2, 2010, Hamas denied the allegations and announced that its own investigations had shown that al-Mabhuh was murdered by agents of Arab governments and not by the Mossad. It is also possible that the Palestinian security forces controlled by the hostile Fatah were also involved in the murder.

Israel

When asked whether Israel was involved in Mabhuh's death, Israel's Foreign Minister Lieberman said: “The State of Israel never reacts and does not confirm anything. There is no certainty, no reason to think that the Israeli Mossad and not some other secret service was active there. ”The Israeli daily Haaretz calls for the resignation of Mossad chief Meir Dagan because of the political upheavals .

International reactions

The United Kingdom , Ireland , France and Germany requested information from the Israeli government about the murder, particularly with regard to the use of forged passports. "Berlin and the other governments are reacting to the increasingly clear allegations made by the authorities in Dubai," said a press report. The Jerusalem Post reported that the Palestinian " Popular Resistance Committee " tried to avenge Mabhuh's death as early as early February. For the planned attack, bombs were stowed in barrels and driven across the Mediterranean to the coast, where they were intercepted by Israeli security forces. Israel responded to the planned attack with air strikes on smugglers' tunnels on the border with the Gaza Strip.

On March 23, 2010, Britain became the first western country to openly accuse Israel of being involved in the murder of Mahmud al-Mabhuh. Foreign Secretary David Miliband accused the Israeli secret service of "being behind the forgery of British passports that were used in the attack". As a consequence, the British government expelled an Israeli diplomat. At the end of May 2010, the Australian government also announced that it “had no doubt that Israel was responsible for this misuse and forgery of passports”. Like Great Britain, Australia designated an Israeli diplomat as a sign of disapproval.

Movie

In 2011 , the French filmmaker Chris Marker published a found footage film with the title Stopover in Dubai , made up of surveillance videos that were edited to show and identify the suspects of the murder. The material was originally provided to the online television broadcaster Gulf News TV by government agencies in Dubai and was first published on gulfnews.com under the title The murder of Mahmoud Al Mabhouh . Marker took over the already assembled videos and the original text inserts from the television station unchanged and backed them with Henryk Górecki's String Quartet No.3, (... songs are sung), Op. 67 for the Kronos Quartet .

Web links

 Wikinews: British Foreign Minister Miliband outraged by "Mossad affair"  - news

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Israel blamed for murder of top Hamas leader in Dubai , Emirates Business. January 30, 2010. Archived from the original on March 2, 2016 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved February 20, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.business24-7.ae 
  2. ↑ a b c Donald Macintyre, Ghazali, Said: Profile: Victim's brother tells of 'shadowy and secretive life' , The Independent. February 19, 2010. Retrieved February 20, 2010. 
  3. ↑ "Slain Hamas militant admitted role in killings" ( Memento of February 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), France24 (AFP), February 7, 2010.
  4. ↑ Gil Yaron: Murder in the Luxury Hotel . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of February 18, 2010. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
  5. ↑ https://www.focus.de/politik/ausland/konfligte-mossad-affaere-druck-auf-israel-waechst_aid_481662.html
  6. ↑ Karl Grobe : "Murderers with false passports" ( Memento from February 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Frankfurter Rundschau , February 18, 2010.
  7. ↑ a b “Dubai murder: alleged agents are said to have traveled to the USA and Israel after the crime” , Spiegel Online , March 1, 2010.
  8. ↑ The murder of Mahmoud Al Mabhouh. Gulf News , February 16, 2010, accessed February 18, 2010 (English, video, compilation of surveillance cameras).
  9. ^ "16 further suspects wanted by Dubai police in connection with the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh" ( Memento of March 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Interpol , March 8, 2010.
  10. ↑ "Suspected killers disguised themselves as tennis players" , Spiegel Online , February 16, 2010.
  11. ↑ "Dubai Police chief calls for internal Hamas probe" , Gulf News , February 21 of 2010.
  12. ↑ "Hamas: Dubai assassins were likely Arabs, not Israelis" ( Memento of March 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Haaretz , February 2, 2010.
  13. ↑ a b “Criticism of the Mossad in one's own country” ( Memento from February 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), tagesschau.de , February 17, 2010.
  14. ↑ Financial Times Deutschland: "Europeans demand clarification of Israel" ( Memento of February 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), February 18, 2010 (query date: February 19, 2010)
  15. ^ "Possible third barrel bomb discovered at Palmahim beach" , Jerusalem Post , February 3, 2010.
  16. ^ "After the murder of the Hamas commander in Dubai. London expels Israeli diplomats ” ( Memento from March 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), tagesschau.de , March 23, 2010.
  17. ^ Spiegel online, March 23, 2010
  18. ^ “Australia expels Israeli diplomats” ( Memento from May 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), tagesschau.de , May 24, 2010.
  19. ↑ Frédéric Jaeger: Kasseler Dokfest: When pictures no longer prove anything , critic.de, November 18, 2013
  20. ↑ Stopover in Dubai on Chris Markers Flash website www.gorgomancy.net
  21. ^ Giampaolo Bianconi: More Chris Marker Online , rhizome.org, July 31, 2012
  22. ↑ When People Die, They Sing Songs: Chris Marker's Stopover In Dubai , greg.org, July 31, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Mabhuh, Mahmud al-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palestinian Hamas leader and member of the Qassam Brigades
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Jabaliya
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 2010
Place of death Dubai