Hamas Leader’s Son: Releasing Security Prisoners Would Revive the Terrorist Group

By: David Israel – Jewish Press; jewishpress.com

Mosab Yousef, 46, the eldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding leader of Hamas who heads the terrorist group in Judea and Samaria, defected to Israel in 1997 and worked as an Israeli spy for the Shin Bet until he moved to the United States in 2007. On Saturday, he warned that Israel must not “rejuvenate” the terrorist group by releasing its most dangerous members—including his father—as part of a hostage deal.

Yousef told The Telegraph: “The only card in Hamas’s hands today is the hostages – they want the release of hundreds if not thousands of mass murderers from Israeli prisons.”

He noted: “The most dangerous Hamas leaders today are not in Qatar or Turkey – they are in Israeli prisons. That includes my father. And Hamas wants to force Israel – using the international community and the global pressure – to release mass murderers of the caliber of Sinwar. They want them released back to the streets, can you imagine?”

“We are talking about some very dangerous people – even if they are released abroad they can continue forming and creating terrorist cells and attacking Jews worldwide,” he warned.