Poland today extradited a suspected Mossad agent to Germany, where he faces charges over a passport that was used in the murder of a Hamas leader in Dubai earlier this year.

A POLISH court has ordered the extradition to Germany of an Israeli man suspected of being a Mossad agent involved in the slaying of a Hamas operative.

Polish authorities have arrested an alleged Mossad agent wanted in connection with the killing of a Hamas leader in Dubai, the German federal prosecutor’s office said today.

Australia is to expel an Israeli diplomat after investigators said Israel was responsible for forging four Australian passports used in the killing of a Hamas operative in Dubai, it emerged today.

Australia moved to expel an Israeli diplomat today after investigators concluded Israel was responsible for forging four Australian passports that were used in the killing of a Hamas operative in Dubai.

Britain announced the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat today after concluding Tel Aviv forged the UK passports used by the killers of a Hamas commander.

YOUR columnist Steven King (March 3) must be one of the few people in the world who doubts Israel’s responsibility for the extrajudicial killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai.

IT was good to read some sense about the Mahmoud al-Mabhouh affair (Steven King, March 3).

THE column by Steven King (March 3) was a master class in the art of airbrushing Israel’s role in the Middle East conflict. His one-eyed analysis omitted several important points.

INTERPOL issued an alert for 16 more suspects in connection with the murder of a Hamas commander in a Dubai hotel yesterday.

Interpol issued an alert for 16 more suspects in connection with the murder of a Hamas commander in a Dubai hotel today.

A PALESTINIAN commander killed in Dubai by an assassination team using fake Irish passports was drugged and then suffocated, according to police in the Gulf state.

Forensic tests show a Hamas commander was drugged and then suffocated in his hotel room, Dubai police said today.

The British Embassy in Israel says a special police investigator has been flown in to meet the dual British-Israeli nationals whose British passports were used in the assassination of a Hamas operative in Dubai.

NONE of the six people whose passports were used by the suspects involved in the assassination of a senior Hamas commander last month have ever travelled to the Middle East.

SIX Irish passports have been confirmed as having been used in the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai last month.

The Government has said it will pursue the use of fake Irish passports by a group of alleged assassins.

The brother of Hamas militant killed in Dubai has called on Ireland to ‘punish Israel’ if it is found that its secret service is responsible for using Irish passports in the assassination of his brother Mahmoud AL-Mabhouh.

THE brother of the Palestinian leader assassinated in Dubai has called on the Irish Government to expel the Israeli ambassador from Ireland.

It has emerged one of those alleged to have been behind the killing of a Hamas official in Dubai listed a Dublin 4 property as his home address.

THE five Irish citizens whose passport numbers were used on forged documents by the killers of a senior Hamas military commander are automatically named on a worldwide terror list, Foreign Minister Micheál Martin said.

Europe’s governments today joined in condemnation of the use of fake EU passports in an assassination plot – but stopped short of naming Israel as the prime suspect.

The killing of a senior Hamas official in Dubai should not be considered as murder, an Israeli minister said today.

FOREIGN Minister Micheál Martin will tackle his Israeli counterpart in Brussels this morning over the fake Irish passports used by the hit squad who killed a senior Hamas commander in Dubai – but is unlikely to get any answers.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Micheál Martin will confront Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in Brussels this morning over the use of fake Irish passports by the Mossad agents believed to have murdered Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai.

A Hamas leader assassinated during a visit to Dubai last month exposed himself to attack when he breached security protocol by talking about his trip over the phone and making hotel reservations on the internet, the militant Islamic group said today.

Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin said today that he is to meet his Israeli counterpart to discuss the use of fake Irish passports by a team of assassins.

Five Irish passports are now being examined as part of the investigation into the killing of a Hamas commander in Dubai last month.

The victim of a meticulously planned assassination involving up to 17 people, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, was a marked man before he ever left Damascus, writes Catherine Shanahan.

TWO years ago this week, a bomb exploded in a jeep in Damascus decapitating Imad Mughniyeh. It bore all the hallmarks of a Mossad assassination.

Israel’s Ambassador to Ireland is to be invited to a parliamentary committee to answer questions on the use of fake Irish passports by a team of assassins, it emerged tonight.

ISRAEL’S largest daily tabloid yesterday praised the elimination of a “cruel enemy” and urged readers not to worry about diplomatic relations with Ireland.

THE secret service hit squad blamed for assassinating a Hamas commander were carrying a total of five Irish passports, it emerged last night.

The secret service hit squad blamed for assassinating a Hamas commander were carrying a total of five Irish passports, it emerged tonight.

The Secretary General of the Department of Foreign Affairs has met with the Israeli ambassador in Dublin today over the use of false passports by the alleged killers of a Hamas official in Dubai last month.

Foreign Affairs minister Micheál Martin has said the three Irish passports used by a group of operatives who allegedly assassinated a Hamas commander in Dubai had valid numbers, reversing his department's position of a day earlier.

THE Department of Foreign Affairs has managed to identify the three people whose Irish passports were unknowingly faked by the assassins of a Hamas commander.

Israel’s ambassador should be summoned to the British Foreign Office to answer allegations of his country’s involvement in the assassination of a Hamas commander by a hit squad using fake British and European passports, a senior MP demanded today.

Dubai police appealed for an international manhunt today after releasing names and photographs of an alleged 11-member hit squad – including three with Irish passports and six with British passports – accused of killing a Hamas commander last month.

Dubai’s police chief said an 11-member hit squad carrying European passports was responsible for killing a Hamas commander in his hotel room last month.

A wave of floating bombs designed to wash up on Israel's beaches were released in a revenge attack by Palestinian militants for the death of a top Hamas member.

Hamas claimed today one of its veteran fighters was killed by Israeli agents in Dubai last week.