Israeli authorities release Hamas co-founder Hassan Yousef after more than two years in detention, according to multiple reports. The accounts say Yousef is a senior Hamas figure associated with the group’s activity in the West Bank and that he has been held under Israel’s administrative detention system.
One outlet reports that he is freed after being detained for over two years, while another specifies that he has been in administrative detention since October 2023. That timing is described as shortly after the Hamas attack on Israel that triggers the subsequent war in Gaza.
A separate report adds background on Yousef’s role in Hamas’s founding, stating that he co-founded the movement in 1987 alongside Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and other Palestinian members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The sources agree on the release outcome, Yousef’s identity as a Hamas co-founder and senior leader, and the length and nature of his detention, though they differ in the amount of historical detail provided.
