Squad member Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was killed in Dubai on January 20 , 2010 . The assassination is believed to be the work of the Israeli Mossad intelligence service . According to a Hamas statement , Al-Mabhouh had been involved in the 1989 abduction and killing of two Israeli soldiers , Avi Sasportas and Ilan Sa'adon , whose murders he celebrated by standing on one of their corpses . In a video taped two weeks before his death , and broadcast on Al-Jazeera in early February 2010 , Mabhouh admitted his involvement , saying he had disguised himself as an Orthodox Jew
killed in Dubai
Assassination of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh
Murders of Avi Sasportas and Ilan Saadon