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11 suspects for killing a Hamas leader

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Summary This past week, a Hamas leader, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, was killed in Dubai and Israel has denied any role in the murder. The chief of the Dubai police has stated that he is 99% certain that Israeli agents were responsible in the death. However, Israel denies the allegations citing the lack of concrete education. Now, it has come out that six fake United Kingdom passports were allegedly used by the assassinators of the Hamas commander. Israel’s secret service agency, Mossad, is allegedly involved in the killing on January 20, 2010. International authorities are holding a lot of important information. There was a twenty-minute meeting between Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor and the head of the United Kingdom’s diplomatic service, Sir Peter Ricketts. The Republic of Ireland has also stated that three Irish passports were used in the killing of the Hamas member.

Reaction 1 by David Hong Recently one of the top Hamas leader was killed in Dubai. His death upset palestinians and the members of Hamas. Through the investigation of the murder clearly showed that Israel was related to the death. Israel-Palestinian conflict has been going on for more than decades. Many tried to ease the tension between Israel and Palestine, but never achieved. To me Israel seems to ignore the voices of Palestinians. However at the same time Palestinians are not recognizing Israeli's effort to ease the tension. Their inabilities to cooperate each other only resulted death and injuries to their people. Through this murder tension will grow rapidly and citizens will only perish. Hamas will terrorize Israelis and people will die. Western power should not take the side of Israel, but to stay in neutral. Western power should help both side to comprise. The only way to end the age of terrorism in Palestine is to communicate, recognize their difference and accept to live along.

Reaction 2 by Philippa Halliday

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I feel that though the governments of both Israel and the UK deny the claims of taking any part in the assassination of al-Mabhouh they are probably reluctant that he had been killed. Also if it is easy for 11 people to use fake passports to travel then there could be serious problems with others doing this as well. What both governments should do in response to this if find a way to prevent people from traveling with fake passports. Also if they were in the conspiracy to take out al-Mabhouh then they should admit it and take consequences for their actions. Also because they were given tips from the actions that were going to take place then they should have had heightened security to prevent this occurrence from happening.======