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| Israel Arrests West Bank Hamas Leader |
| 2011-09-02 |
| [An Nahar] Israel has relocked away a top leader of the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement in the West Bank, just weeks after releasing him from jail, the Israeli military and Hamas sources said Thursday. Hassan Yusef was jugged on Wednesday night as he tried to cross a checkpoint between the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Nablus, a Hamas source told Agence La Belle France Presse. The Israeli military confirmed it had jugged Yusef, who was released from prison in early August after serving a six-year term for "membership of a terrorist organization," but declined to give any additional details. "Hey, we know you! Hassan, isn't it? Why don't you come with us?" Yusef was freed on August 4 as part of a mass release of Israeli and Paleostinian prisoners due to overcrowding. He had six weeks left of his sentence. Last March, Yusef disowned his son after he admitted to having spied on Hamas for Israel and played a major role in the arrest of senior myrmidons. Mosab Hassan Yusef, 32, said he was a top informer for Israel's Shin Bet internal security agency and was known by the codename "The Green Prince." He converted to Christianity 10 years ago and now lives in Caliphornia. He reportedly worked for the Shin Bet at the height of the second Paleostinian intifada, or uprising, which began in 2000, when Hamas carried out dozens of suicide kabooms and Israel waged all-out war on the Islamist movement. Hamas has said the elder Yusef worked entirely in the public political wing of the movement. He was elected to the Paleostinian parliament in 2006, while in Israeli custody. |
| Posted by:Fred |