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Israel drops gauntlet on Malaysia’s help to Hamas
Targeted assassination of researcher in Kuala Lumpur likely part of Israeli campaign to kill overseas Palestinian scientists and engineers
- Nile Bowie
- Asia Times
Thousands of mourners gathered in Gaza on Friday for the funeral of Fadi al-Batsh, a respected Palestinian researcher and engineering lecturer who was assassinated by gun-wielding assailants in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on April 21 while heading to a mosque for dawn prayers.
Al-Batsh studied electrical engineering in Gaza and earned a PhD on the subject from the University of Malaya.
The slain academic was a member of Hamas, the militant Islamic group that has governed the…