Mosab hassan yousef

Israel releases Hamas co-founder, father of 'Green Prince,' after more than two years of detention

Yousef is a senior leader of Hamas in the West Bank, having co-founded the group in 1987 along with Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and other Palestinian members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

|ByMAYA ZANGER-NADIS
Palestinians greet and congratulate Hassan Yousef (center), Hamas co-founder, following his release on January 19, 2014 after spending 28 months in Israel's Ofer prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a 40 signatures debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 8, 2025.

Shin Bet agent who worked with 'Son of Hamas' also foiled a plot to assassinate PM - interview

"You have to understand, Gaza is not the West Bank. Recruiting and activating people in Gaza is a very, very difficult thing."

|ByGILAD MORAG
Mosab Hassan Yousef speaks at a screening of uncensored footage from the October 7th massacre in Israel by Hamas terrorists at United Nations on November 20, 2023 in New York City.

Son of Hamas calls for Israelis to launch 'counter-flotilla' against Gaza activists

Yousef, who once worked undercover for the Shin Bet, has since become a vocal advocate for Israel abroad. He issued his appeal over the weekend in a series of fiery social media posts.

|ByPESACH BENSON/TPS
Former hostage Emily Damari at the Western Wall.

Emily Damari meets ‘Green Prince,’ reveals chilling details of Hamas captivity - N12

Damari told Yousef she was held near Hamas commander Izz al-Din al-Haddad, who she says called hostages “gold” and may accept exile for a deal.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Son of Hamas co-founder speaks out against Hamas violence, indoctrination at UN

Yousef, the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, has opposed the terror group since defecting in the 1990s.

NOVEMBER 23, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Mosab Hassan Yousef at the Jerusalem Post 2019 Annual Conference.

Hamas founder's son, former informant breaks silence, slams Hamas

Hamas’s slaughter of Israelis, a people who are saddled with trauma from the Holocaust, “opened the gates of hell on the Palestinian people.”

OCTOBER 27, 2023BySAM HALPERN
Mosab Hassan Yousef poses for a photo before a news conference in Jerusalem June 19, 2012

Palestinian killed in clashes with IDF troops

Senior Hamas official Sheikh Hassan Youssef re-arrested by Israel

MAY 22, 2019ByANNA AHRONHEIM, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF soldiers arrest senior Hamas official Hassan Yousef

Hamas leader's son blasts Palestinian Authority leadership at UN

Mosab Hassan Yousef took the Palestinian Authority leadership to task at the United Nations this week.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Mosab Hassan Yousef

Talking cease-fire and Palestinian unity with a Hamas founder

According to Hassan Yousef, Hamas, which has fought many wars with Israel, is ready to lay its weapons down for a long time, if Israel lifts its closure on the Gaza Strip.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017ByADAM RASGON
Hamas leader Hassan Yousif in his living room in Beitunia, a suburb of Ramallah, September 6, 2017.

Former Hamas successor to AIPAC: Christ taught me to love your enemy

"Sometimes I try to rationalize what a son of a Hamas leader is doing in a big Jewish event like this,” Yousef joked to the AIPAC crowd.

MARCH 3, 2015ByARIEL COHEN
Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef