The son of a Hamas founder served as a spy for Israel’s Shin Bet security service, Haaretz reported.
Mosab Hassan Yousef served for over a decade as the Shin Bet’s most valuable source on Hamas. He converted to Christianity 10 years ago, and left the West Bank in 2007 for California, where he currently lives.
Yousef, 32, is the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a Hamas leader in the West Bank.
His intelligence, under the moniker of “The Green Prince,” lead to the prevention of dozens of suicide bombing attacks, assassination attempts on Israeli officials and exposure of several terrorist cells, Haaretz reported Wednesday.
“Son of Hamas,” a book written by Yousef and Rob Brackin, will be released next week in the United States.
Yousef’s intelligence led to the arrest of Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, and other high-ranking Palestinian officials who planned suicide attacks, according to Haaretz.
A senior Hamas leader, Ismail Radwan, told AFP that the Haaretz report is “baseless slander.”
“The Palestinian people have great confidence in Hamas and its struggle and they will not be fooled by this slander and these lies of the Israeli occupation,” he said.
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