Last week, we told you about Mosab Hassan Yousef, the heroic son of a Hamas leader who turned on his father’s violent ideology and spied for Israel to help fight Hamas terror and save lives. Now comes word that he’s been disowned by his father following the revelations.
Mosab Hassan Yousef, who converted to Christianity 10 years ago and now lives in California, went public with his role on the eve of the publication of “Son of Hamas,” a memoir about his life that’s due to be released this week.
According the the AP report, Sheikh Hassan Yousef, the top Hamas official in the West Bank, released the following statement:
“I, Sheikh Hassan Yousef… my wife, sons and daughters announce that we have completely disowned the man who was our oldest son and who is called Mosab,” …
The decision was taken following “the man who is called Mosab’s apostasy towards God and his prophet… his betrayal of Muslims, his cooperation with the enemies of God and the damage he caused to our people and our cause.”
The younger Yousef fled the Palestinian-controlled West Bank in 2007 and went public with his conversion to Christianity the following year. Death threats soon followed.
Although Israeli officials said that the younger Yousef had been Israel’s top informant on Hamas and had provided intelligence that stopped numerous planned attacks and led to the arrests of Ibrahim Hamid, a Hamas military chief in the West Bank, and Abdullah Barghuti, the bomb maker behind an infamous 2001 suicide attack on a Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem, the older Yousef, who has been held in an Israeli prison since 2005, denied his son had access to Hamas secrets and that members were warned to avoid him as early as 1996.
SFI sends prayers and deep gratitude to Mosab Yousef.
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