Poland’s Supreme Court has given the final OK, and the Israeli accused of forging a German passport in order to facilitate the assassination of a Hamas terrorist will be deported to Germany.
The dead man was Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh, a senior Hamas military commander and one of the founders of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. He was found dead in a hotel room in Dubai in January of this year. Though at the time of his death, he was wanted by the Israeli, Egyptian and Jordanian governments, many believe that Israel’s Mossad was behind his murder.
Poland’s Supreme Court has now given its final approval for the deportation of someone known as Uri Brodsky, which is not assumed to be his real name. The man is suspected of having helped forge a German passport that aided one of the killers of Al-Mabhouh. Several Israelis are said to have followed Al-Mabhouh to Dubai and then to his hotel room, where he was found dead several hours after checking in.
The man known as Brodsky was arrested in early July, at Germany’s behest, when he landed in Warsaw. The Germans suspect that he submitted documents in the German city of Cologne requesting a passport in the name of Michael Bodenheimer.
The Polish court’s decision was delayed for several weeks, apparently because Poland feared that the deportation would harm its diplomatic relations with Israel.