Son Of Hamas Apr 2026
He was secretly baptized in a beachside ceremony in Tel Aviv. For his father and the Muslim world, this was the ultimate betrayal—far worse than spying for Israel. In Islam, apostasy is a capital offense. In the Palestinian national struggle, abandoning Islam for a Western faith is seen as siding with the Crusader-Zionist enemy. Mosab Yousef eventually fled to the United States, where he was granted political asylum. He remains a controversial and polarizing figure.
It was during that imprisonment that his ideological armor cracked. He was horrified by the brutality of Hamas operatives not just toward Israelis, but toward fellow Palestinians suspected of collaboration. He watched as the group’s leaders prioritized political power over the welfare of the people. Disillusioned, he made a fateful decision: he agreed to become an informant for the Shin Bet. Known by his Shin Bet code name, "The Green Prince" (a reference to the green flag of Hamas), Mosab became the most valuable asset the Israeli intelligence community ever recruited inside Hamas’s leadership. For nearly a decade (1997–2007), he systematically betrayed his own father’s organization.
Son of Hamas is both a controversial autobiography and a geopolitical shockwave. Written by Mosab Hassan Yousef, the book offers a stunning, insider account of the Palestinian militant group Hamas—told by the man who was not only the son of its founder, but also a secret agent for Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet.
