The son of one of the founders of the Hamas belligerent organization was unprotected now as a tip Israeli adviser who helped forestall dozens of self-murder bombings and alternative attacks.
Mosab Hassan Yousef, codenamed the Green Prince by his handlers, was one of the Shin Bet security services majority profitable sources, Israels Haaretz journal said.
His reports led to the arrests of multiform high-ranking Palestinian total during the aroused overthrow that began in 2000, the journal said.
Yousefs father, Sheik Hassan Yousef, was a initial part of the Islamic belligerent organization Hamas in the 1980s. He is now portion a six-year judgment in an Israeli jail for his domestic activities.
The younger Yousef converted to Christianity and changed to California in 2007.
The explanation deals an additional reversal to Hamas, that is disorder from the gangland slaying of a heading part of in Dubai last month. There have been reports that an insider assisted the killers.
Yousefs memoir, Son of Hamas, is being published subsequent week in the US.
Yousef could not be contacted for comment, but an mention from the book on his Facebook page plugs it as a retaining comment of terror, betrayal, domestic intrigue, and inconceivable choices. It describes Yousefs tour as one that jeopardised Hamas, involved his family, and in jeopardy his life.
It additionally says Yousefs attribute with the Shin Bet helped frustrate an Israeli plan to murder his father.
Yousef told the paper Shin Bet agents initial approached him in jail in 1996 and due he penetrate the top echelons of Hamas. He did so successfully and is credited by Israel with saving hundreds of Israeli lives.
Yousef pronounced he hoped to send a summary of assent to Israelis, though he remained desperate about the prospects for finale the Israel-Palestinian conflict. He had quite pointy comments for Hamas, the Iranian-backed transformation that seized carry out of the Gaza Strip in 2007 and has been branded a militant organization by Israel and the West.
Hamas cannot have assent with the Israelis. That is opposite what their God tells them. It is unfit to have assent with infidels, he said.
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