Alwaght- Palestinian Hamas movement has blamed the Israeli regime’s notorious spy agency, Mossad, for the assassination of one of its Tunisian drone experts.
After conduction of an 11-month-long investigation, Hamas said Mohammed al-Zawari, a commander of its armed wing the Qassam Brigades since 2006, was fatally shot outside his home multiple times while in his car near Sfax, 270km southeast of Tunis, on December 15, 2016.
Hamas had set up an investigative committee in the immediate aftermath of the assassination.
Speaking at a press conference in Beirut on Thursday, Mohammed Nazzal, Hamas politburo member, called the Mossad operation a "terrorist act".
"Mossad is officially accused of being behind the assassination, which is not only a terrorist act, but a violation of state sovereignty," he said.
Nazzal also said that it is within their "responsibility to coordinate with Tunisian authorities" on matters relating to the country's national security "to confront the Zionist enemy".
"Tunisia has information regarding the investigation as well, and its national interest and stability is highly important to us," Nazzal said.
"Because the Zionists may repeat its doings once again, and as such we are responsible for Tunisia's security - and we would be for any other Arab state."
According to Hamas, the 49-year-old al-Zawari was an aviation engineer who worked on the development of unmanned aerial vehicles.
The movement credited him with developing the "Ababeel" drones used in the last Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2014.
The full investigative report, which is published on Hamas' website, includes details of how the assassination was meticulously planned over three stages in 2015 and involved 12 individuals.
The two men who carried out the assassination had Bosnian passports.
The Israeli regime, world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism, has been implicated in the assassination of many Palestinian resistance fighters across the world.
