Yousef, 32, was considered Israel's best placed collaborator inside the organization whose violent attacks have claimed hundreds of lives.
He was given the operational code name Green Prince, a play on Hamas's green flag and his father's prominence in the movement.
According to one of his former Israeli handlers quoted in the forthcoming book, Yousef collaborated with Israel because he wanted to save lives.
"The amazing thing is that none of his actions were done for money. So many people owe him their life and don't even know it," said the handler known only as Captain Loai. "People who did a lot less were awarded the Israel Security Prize. He certainly deserves it."
In addition to providing warning of imminent suicide attacks, the book claims he also helped Israel arrest many high-level Palestinian suspects during the second Palestinian uprising or Intifada. They included Ibrahim Hamid, a senior Hamas commander, Marwan Barghouti, the popular leader of the Fatah party, and Abdullah Barghouti, one of Hamas's most prolific bomb makers. All are now serving multiple life sentences in Israeli prisons.
According to the beginning of the article, he has written a memoir and gave an interview to an Israeli newspaper. It sounds like he wants to put things on the record himself.
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The Green Prince: Son of Hamas Leader Worked for Israeli Intelligence
A Hamas Founder's Son was Once One of Israel's Most Valued Informants
By SIMON MCGREGOR-WOOD
JERUSALEM, Feb. 24, 2010
Mosab Hassan Yousef now lives in exile in California. The 32-year-old Palestinian convert to Christianity escaped his native West Bank in 2007. He has good reason to never return. Next week his memoir "Son of Hamas," will be published in the U.S., revealing his years as one of Israel's most valued informants inside Hamas.
He is the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, one of the Islamic movement's founders and who is currently in an Israeli prison. According to an interview Mosab gave to Israel's Haaretz newspaper, his work with the Shin Bet, the Israeli domestic spy agency, saved dozens of Israeli lives from thwarted Hamas attacks.
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If you're certain you know everything, there's little opportunity to learn anything.
When I see a number I wonder what the significance is. Why point out he's 32? In my mind 32 isn't good, means someone who's false. Just me and based on the times the number was associated with others. Isn't it weird that his age is even relevant to the story yet there it is.
3 is God, 2 is an impostor. An impostor god. Every desire to be wrong but there it is.
HAMAS Founders Son Was A Shin Bet Spy
