Allegations of Israeli involvement in the assassination of a Hamas commander by killers using fake British and European passports must be investigated by the UK, an MP said.
Hugo Swire, chairman of the Conservative Middle East Council, called for a "full investigation" of who was behind last month's killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai.
Two Britons whose passports were apparently used by the hit squad have expressed shock at being caught up in the affair after they were named among 11 suspects identified by Dubai police.
The Foreign Office has said the six British passports involved were "fraudulent" and officials in Dublin said they had "issued no passports" in the names of the three people using Irish identities.
It is thought that while details like the names, numbers and dates of birth on the suspect passports matched the originals, the photographs and signatures differed.
Hamas has pointed the finger at Israel, blaming Mossad - the country's secret service - for carrying out the hit.
Dubai police chief Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim said it was possible that "leaders of certain countries gave orders to their intelligence agents to kill" the Hamas man.
Mr Swire said it was "easy" to point the finger at Mossad but the UK should demand to see the evidence.
"This is not something that can just be swept under the carpet because of the bad feeling it is going to create in the Arab world. You cannot conduct foreign policy at this extremely sensitive time by this sort of illegal behaviour," he said.
Those travelling with UK documents were named as Michael Lawrence Barney, James Leonard Clarke, Jonathan Louis Graham, Paul John Keeley, Stephen Daniel Hodes and Melvyn Adam Mildiner.
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