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<p>OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)&#8211; Dr. Dhurar  Abu Sisi, the Palestinian electrical engineer who was kidnapped by the  Isreali Mossad from the Ukraine, has categorically denied Thursday  Israeli allegations that he knows the whereabouts of Gilad Shalit.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Abu Sisi made his remarks as he appeared  at the Israeli Petah Tikva court on Thursday, constituting big blow to  statements made by Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu that Abu  Sisi gave valuable information on Shalit.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">&#8220;I am an electrical engineer, and I was  interrogated at length by the Israeli security apparatuses on Shalit&#8217;s  whereabouts, but the fact is that I have nothing to do with the case of  Shalit and I know nothing about him&#8221;, Abu Sisi said before journalists  inside the court.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">For his part, Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, the  spokesman of Hamas in Gaza, denied Israeli allegations that Abu Sisi has  organizational links with the Hamas Movement, describing the  allegations as an Israeli attempt to cover up the crime of kidnapping  Abu Sisi in the Ukraine and transferring him to the occupied Palestinian  territories.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">&#8220;The kidnapping of Abu Sisi from Ukraine  serves as good example to the Israeli criminal behaviour, and considered  as flagrant violation of  international law and clear undermining of  the international community&#8221;, Abu Zuhri said in a statement he issued on  the matter.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">He also deprecated the silence of the  Ukrainian government on the Israeli crime committed on its soil, urging  it to shoulder its responsibility over the kidnapping of Abu Sisi, and  calling on it to work hard to release him from Israeli jails.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Earlier, the Israeli prosecution said it  would charge Abu Sisi with &#8220;grave crimes&#8221; but refused to give details on  the nature of those crimes.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Susan Abu Sisi, sister of Dhurar, shrugged  off Netanyahu&#8217;s fabrications that her brother provided valuable  information on the whereabouts of Shalit, accusing Netanyahu of  misleading the family of Shalit, and attempting to show them that he is  still interested in getting their captured son released.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">&#8220;If indeed they got valuable information  on the whereabouts of Shalit, then what prevents them from freeing him,  the Mossad is known for it’s ability to operate in any part of the  world&#8221;, said Susan.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The Israeli group that works for the  release of Shalit confirmed Abu Sisi&#8217;s statements, saying that the  engineer knows nothing about Shalit&#8217;s case.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">It also accused the Israeli government of  using &#8220;media stunts&#8221; by alleging that Abu Sisi knows the place of  Shalit, charging that the aim of such stunts was to give Netanyahu  enough time to show that he was making progress on this front.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Abu Sisi was with his Ukrainian wife  visiting her family and applying for Ukrainian citizenship when he  disappeared during a train trip to the capital Kiev and found few days  later in an Israeli jail in occupied Palestine.</p>
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