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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

Hassan Yousef

Hassan Yousef speaks to the media after his release from an Israeli prison, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 19, 2014. (Majdi Mohammad/AP)
January 2, 2022, 1:46 pm
Senior West Bank Hamas official to be charged with incitement, supporting terror
Hamas co-founder Hassan Yousef has spent years in and out of Israeli jail, mostly under administrative detention; indictment comes as tensions rise between Israel, Hamas
By Aaron Boxerman
Palestinian students who support the Hamas movement take part in an election campaign rally for the student council at Birzeit University, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 26, 2016 (AFP/Abbas Momani)
December 14, 2021, 5:45 pm
Israel arrests 11 Nablus university students for pro-Hamas activism
Arrests come as West Bank sees uptick in clashes between Palestinians and Abbas’s forces; Hamas co-founder Hassan Yousef arrested by Israel
By Aaron Boxerman and Judah Ari Gross
Hamas official Hassan Yousef at his office in Ramallah, July 30, 2015. (Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
October 2, 2020, 1:19 pm
Israel arrests senior Hamas leader in West Bank
Terror group and its rival Fatah both claim arrest of Hassan Youssef for ‘renewed activity’ is aimed at interfering with Palestinian reconciliation talks
By Aaron Boxerman
Palestinians hold a poster with crossed-out pictures of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Dubai ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, US President Donald Trump, and Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, during a rally organized by Hamas in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah on September 12, 2020, to condemn the Israel-Bahrain normalization agreement. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
September 13, 2020, 7:38 pm
PLO, Hamas to hold joint rallies decrying UAE, Bahrain normalization with Israel
Previous protest featuring senior officials from both major Palestinian factions drew only a few hundred
By Aaron Boxerman
Hassan Yousef speaks to the media after his release from an Israeli prison, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 19, 2014. (Majdi Mohammad/AP)
July 23, 2020, 6:43 pm
Hamas West Bank leader said freed from detention after 16 months
Hassan Yousef, co-founder of terror group and father to ‘Son of Hamas,’ said released without trial after arrest last year at Ramallah home
By AFP
Hamas fighters take part in a military maneuver in Gaza City on March 25, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)
July 5, 2019, 3:01 am
Hamas on advocacy blitz to counter exposé of corruption by 2nd ‘Son of Hamas’
Terror group launches public display of support for co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef after a second of his sons tells Israeli TV of its cynicism and his disillusionment
By ToI Staff
Suheib Yousef, son of Hamas co-founder Hassan Yousef, talks to Israeli TV after leaving the terror group and accusing it off corruption (Screencapture, July 3, 2019, Channel 12)
July 4, 2019, 6:47 am
Second ‘son of Hamas’ leaves terror group, exposing corruption, Turkish spy ring
Suheib Yousef, son of Hamas co-founder and brother of ‘Green Prince’ who secretly worked for Shin Bet, opens up to Israeli TV after also fleeing group; urges his father to resign
By ToI Staff
Israeli soldiers search for gunmen who opened fire at a bus stop outside the West Bank settlement of Ofra, injuring seven people, on December 9, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 2, 2019, 10:27 am
Palestinian man said killed in predawn clashes with IDF in Qalandiya
Military says ‘violent riot’ broke out as troops entered town; Israeli forces arrest senior Hamas leader in West Bank
By Judah Ari Gross and Adam Rasgon
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Maltese President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca in Ramallah on January 31, 2019. (Wafa news agency)
February 1, 2019, 1:19 am
PA chief says he hopes for broad cooperation to hold legislative elections
But Israel’s public security minister says Israel won’t allow voting in East Jerusalem, a precondition Abbas has set for polling to take place
By Adam Rasgon
Mosab Hassan Yousef addresses an American Friends of Magen David Adom event in Florida, December 2018 (Courtesy)
December 17, 2018, 2:46 pm
‘Just trying to save lives’: 5 surreal days in Florida with the ‘Son of Hamas’
A staggering series of events took Mosab Hassan Yousef from the home of the terror group’s co-founder, to a decade as a Shin Bet agent, to speaking on behalf of Magen David Adom
By David Horovitz
Hassan Yousef speaks to the media after his release from an Israeli prison, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 19, 2014. (Majdi Mohammad/AP)
October 10, 2018, 4:08 pm
Hamas leader Hassan Yousef to be released from Israeli prison
Co-founder of terror group has been held under administrative detention since he called for uprising over Trump’s Jerusalem decision in late 2017
By Adam Rasgon
Sheikh Hassan Yousef is arrested in his home by IDF troops, October 20, 2015. (Screen capture from YouTube)
December 13, 2017, 8:15 am
Senior Hamas leader among dozens arrested overnight in West Bank
Sheik Hassan Yousef detained on suspicion of ‘promoting’ the terror group’s activities amid spike in violence, Shin Bet says
By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross
Palestinians in Gaza City wave Palestinian and Egyptian flags to celebrate the reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Fatah in Egypt, October 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
October 30, 2017, 5:59 pm
How do you solve a problem like Palestinian reconciliation? Slowly, if at all
Control of all Gaza border crossings is supposed to pass from Hamas to Fatah on Wednesday. Don’t bet on it
By Avi Issacharoff
Hamas's new deputy leader Salah al-Arouri (seated, left) and Fatah's Azzam al-Ahmad (seated, right) sign a reconciliation deal in Cairo on October 12, 2017, as the two rival Palestinian movements work to end their decade-long split following negotiations overseen by Egypt. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
October 25, 2017, 1:46 pm
Hamas sees internal stirrings of dissent over reconciliation deal
Unity with Fatah is lauded in Gaza, but regarded with suspicion in the West Bank where arrests by PA continue unabated
By Avi Issacharoff
Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross. (AP/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)
September 5, 2017, 10:10 am
Red Cross chief to raise missing Israelis in talks with Hamas
Peter Maurer heads to Gaza Strip for meeting with terror group’s new Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar, will discuss fate of 3 civilians and remains of 2 IDF soldiers
By Stuart Winer
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