A HAMAS leader killed in his Dubai hotel room was drugged and then suffocated, police said yesterday, giving further details of the Cold War-style hit allegedly carried out by Mossad agents.

ON HAMAS’S first day of full rule in Gaza, crowds looted strongholds of the rival Fatah yesterday — stripping the home of one of the party’s strongmen down to the flower pots — and militants sent a man plunging to his death from a rooftop.