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Israel Risks Reviving Hamas by Exchanging Terrorists for Hostages
(Sunday Telegraph-UK) Camilla Turner - Mosab Hassan Yousef, 46, the eldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, one of Hamas's foremost leaders in the West Bank, has warned Israel must not "rejuvenate" the terrorist group by releasing its most dangerous members - including his father - from jail as part of a hostage deal. He told The Telegraph: "The only card in Hamas's hands today is the hostages. They want the release of hundreds if not thousands of mass murderers from Israeli prisons. The most dangerous Hamas leaders today are not in Qatar or Turkey - they are in Israeli prisons....[Hamas] wants them released back to the streets." Yousef warned that releasing senior Hamas members from Israeli jails "could actually rejuvenate Hamas and bring us to square one. We are talking about some very dangerous people. Even if they are released abroad, they can continue forming and creating terrorist cells and attacking Jews worldwide."