Alwaght- The leader of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, Ismail Haniyah said all efforts will be utilized to trace and punish those behind the assassination of a Palestinian academician in Malaysia.
"Those who assassinated Fadi Mohammad al- al-Batsh will pay a heavy price for their horrendous crime,” Haniyah told the Palestinian Information Center news website in an exclusive interview.
"Batsh was among Palestine’s best representatives, thanks to his knowledge, work, professionalism, creativity and inventions. He had offered valuable services to Palestinians, Malaysians, and the entire Muslim world,” the Hamas leader pointed out.
He then held the Tel Aviv regime's spy agency Mossad responsible for al-Batsh’s murder.
Malaysian police said on Saturday that 35-year-old al-Batch was shot dead by two gunmen on a high-powered motorcycle near his home at Idaman Puteri condominium in the capital Kuala Lumpur.
"The suspect fired 10 shots, four of which hit the lecturer in the head and body. He died on the spot,” the official Bernama news agency quoted Kuala Lumpur police chief Mazlan Lazim as saying.
Mazlan said a recording of a closed-circuit television camera near the scene showed the two assailants waited for about 20 minutes for the Palestinian lecturer to arrive.
In Earlier remarks on Saturday, “Haniyah blamed Israeli regimes notorious spy agency Mossad of carrying out the assassination of al-Batch. “We blame the Israeli Mossad of carrying out the assassination of Dr Fadi al-Batsh,” Hamas quoted Haniyah as saying.
Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said authorities were not discounting the possible involvement of foreign agents in the killing of the Palestinian private university lecturer.
There has been no comment from Israeli authorities.
Al-Bash was a vocal supporter of the Palestinian cause on social media. He had shared many tweets supporting the Great March for Return, and had also voiced his sympathy for slain Palestinian journalist Yaser Murtaja.
The Israeli regime carries our terrorist attacks targeting Palestinian activists and academics across the world with impunity.
