The Palestinian engineer was traveling by train from Kharkiv (pictured) to Kiev when the abduction took place.

Seattle Pi – Israel raised the stakes in its battle with Hamas Monday by indicting a Palestinian engineer for masterminding the group’s rocket program and training fighters.

The indictment accused Abu Sisi of masterminding the Islamic militant group’s rocket program and charged him with hundreds of counts of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and production of weapons.

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