 [IsraelTmes] Among recommendations for global operatives: avoid sharing information with confidants, stay away from unknown individuals.
Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, has issued new safety guidelines to its operatives around the world, following the liquidation of a Tunisian engineer said to have led Hamas’s drone program -- an incident the Paleostinian terror group has blamed on Israel.
According to a report on the Ynet news website Saturday, Hamas issued a list of recommendations to its agents over the weekend, intended to decrease the likelihood of their exposure.
Suggestions include covering one’s tracks and keeping information private even from one’s closest circles. Operatives are advised to stay away from suspect and unfamiliar organizations or people, working only with those contacts who can provide certified credentials.
Agents are also urged to take the utmost precautions while traveling, never using their real identities and choosing meet-up locations carefully. Finally, the organization warns that routine is dangerous, and recommends changing travel habits often in order to make surveillance difficult.
Israel has not responded to the accusation by Hamas that it was behind the death of Mohammed al-Zoari.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman played coy last week when speaking about the killing of Zoari.
"If someone was killed in Tunisia, he’s not likely to be a peace activist or a Nobel Prize candidate," Liberman said at an event at the Zionist Organization of America House in Tel Aviv.
Tunisian Interior Minister Hedi Mejdoub said that journalists hired by individuals posing as a media company were entangled in the murder of Zoari, 49, outside his house in the port city of Sfax on December 15. He was hit by 20 bullets at the wheel of his car.
Mejdoub told news hounds that "at least two foreigners" were involved in the shooting. The killing, he said, had the hallmarks of a foreign espionage agency’s handiwork.
According to Mejdoub, a Tunisian journalist told local Sherlocks that she was hired by foreigners posing as a media company planning to make documentaries in Tunisia for a Malaysian TV channel, including one about the aerospace industry in Arab states, and asked her to contact Zoari as one of the interviewees for the movie.
Paid 100 euros per day, plus expenses, the woman traveled to Tunis, filmed Zoari, and gave the footage to the company. In all, she received 2,000 euros for her work. Besides filming Zoari, she also rented a number of cars used in his liquidation, Mejdoub said, adding that planning for the killing took place over months, since at least June.
Three days before Saturday’s hit, the interior minister said, a foreign man working for the media company contacted her and asked her to rent two cars, and told her to then leave the country the next day.
The journalist was in Budapest during the hit, and only returned to Tunis after it was carried out.
The prosecution has said that 10 suspects, all Tunisians, have been detained for questioning, including a female journalist, and that authorities have seized four vehicles and two weapons.
Mejdoub said two Tunisian nationals living in Sweden were also involved in the operation. The two rented an apartment in Sfax to tail Zoari and rented four cell phones.
"The organizers prepared two plans for two teams, in case one failed or was caught. The hit was planned meticulously and thoroughly," he said.
Tunisian authorities have yet to identify who was behind the shooting.
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas that controls the Gazoo Strip, told AFP that Zoari was a drone expert who had worked for the "resistance" for 10 years, and that he was killed by "Zionist treachery." 
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