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Mapheze Saleh
Mapheze Saleh [Mapheze Ahmad Yousef], the daughter of a senior Hamas official, is pursuing a master's degree at Georgetown University. Mapheze Salah has worked for Hamas, expressed support for Hamas terrorism and called for Israel's destruction.
Saleh's activities occurred during Israel’s war against Hamas, called “Swords of Iron.” Israel launched the war after a series of Hamas terror attacks and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, which were executed on October 7, 2023. The terror attacks left approximately 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded.
Saleh is the daughter of Ahmed Yousef, who reportedly served as a senior adviser to the Hamas Foreign Ministry in 2008 and the "Foreign Ministry director-general" of Hamas in 2010. Electronic Intifada, an anti-Israel news website, reported that Yousef was a "top political advisor" to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in 2008.
In February 2025, the Daily Mail reported that Yousef was "the director of the U.S.-based Islamic think tank the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR)," which has been "considered a front" for Hamas in America.
As of March 2025, Saleh's bio page on the Georgetown University (Georgetown) website said she was studying for a master's degree in Arab studies, slated to graduate in 2026. The page also said she worked as as a researcher at the Qatar Embassy in New Delhi, India, and as a contributing writer for the anti-Israel media outlets Middle East Monitor and Al Jazeera.
For more information on Qatar's plan to influence American public opinion, check Canary Mission's campaign titled: “Northwestern Qatar University: Qatar's Multimillion-Dollar Plan to Influence American Media.”
As of March 2025, Saleh's Georgetown bio page also said that Saleh worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas. In February 2025, the National Review reported that Saleh had "served with the Hamas government’s Committee to Break the Siege in Gaza," which was chaired by her father, Ahmed Yousef.
As of the same date, Saleh's Facebook page said she was from Gaza City.
Saleh is married to Badar Khan Suri, who expressed support for Hamas terrorism, denied the group's October 7, 2023, terror acts and spread anti-Semitism. As of March 2025, Suri had been listed on Georgetown's website as a "Postdoctoral Fellow at the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding."
Saleh's first name is sometimes transliterated as "Maphaz."
Georgetown is located in Washington, D.C.
On February 12, 2018, the Hindustan Times quoted Saleh as saying: “For Palestinians Hamas is a political party fighting for the cause of Palestine, not a terrorist organization.”
Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, European Union, Israel and other countries. Founded in 1987, it has killed thousands of Israeli civilians through mass shootings and suicide bombings. Hamas has also kidnapped children, families and the elderly and held them hostage in Gaza. It has desecrated [slide 7] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.
On October 9, 2023, Saleh wrote on Facebook: "...Lord keep their feet firm.. ✌️
" and added an image of a boot with a Palestinian flag attached to it stomping on plastic miniatures of Israeli soldiers.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Many Palestinian civilians participated in and supported the attacks, and Gazans working in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
On October 12, 2023, Saleh wrote on Facebook: "We shall prevail ✌️" and added an image of Handala, the Palestinian national symbol, holding a parachute, with a Palestinian flag draped over the shoulders.
Handala is a cartoon representing a demand known as the Palestinian “right of return” to Israel. The “right of return” is a demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.
In the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack on Israel, numerous terrorists infiltrated into Israel in motorized paragliders. Hamas terrorists descended in gliders on the Nova Music Festival, where they slaughtered over 360 unarmed young men and women. In the wake of the atrocities, images of Hamas militants on paragliders served to symbolize and glorify the deadly attacks.
On July 31, 2024, Saleh posted on Instagram: "...
" and added a photo of Ismail Haniyeh and a caption that read: "The Iranian Revolutionary Guard announces the martyrdom of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of Hamas..."
Ismail Haniyeh served as the senior leader of terror group Hamas for 18 years. During this time, Hamas increased its rocket barrages on southern Israel and built more terror tunnels. Haniyeh was assassinated in Iran on July 31, 2024, during the Swords of Iron war, which Israel launched against Hamas in response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas atrocities.
In February 2025, Saleh posted on Facebook a photo of Mohammed Deif and wrote: "Today they were chanting his name / Rest in peace, hero ."
Mohammed Deif became the leader of Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades in 2002. He was responsible for developing the terror group’s techniques for launching rockets, deploying suicide bus bombings, kidnapping Israeli soldiers and digging terror tunnels. In 2015, Deif was placed on the U.S. Department of Treasury’s list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs).
On October 7, 2023, Deif announced the launch of Al-Aqsa Flood: the terror atrocities and war crimes that Hamas executed against Israeli civilians. The attacks left approximately 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded.
On July 13, 2024, Deif was eliminated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in a targeted airstrike in Gaza.
In February 2025, Saleh wrote on Instagram: "
✌️PS [Palestine]" and added a photo of armed Hamas terrorists, as they prepared to display Israeli hostages to be returned to Israel as part of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
On October 9, 2023, Saleh wrote on Facebook: "...We will bring of its land / We have a homeland and you are our grave / ," and added an image of a map of Israel and the Palestinian territories with the Israeli flag on fire.
