Yousef Mahmoud Hamid al-Mansi () (born 1953) is a Palestinian architect and politician from the

Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is a small territory located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; it is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories, the other being the West Bank, that make up the State of Palestine. I ...

. He was Minister of Communications and Information Technology in the

Second Haniyeh Government The Second Haniyeh Government, also known as the Palestinian National Unity Government of March 2007 (), was a Palestinian Authority unity government headed by Ismail Haniyeh, the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority that was fo ...

(2007) and a past Minister of Public Works.

Early life

Al-Mansi was born in the

in 1953. He completed a bachelor's degree in 1981, a master's degree in 1999, and a doctorate in 2022, all in architecture from

Al-Azhar University The Al-Azhar University ( ; , , ) is a public university in Cairo, Egypt. Associated with Al-Azhar Al-Sharif in Islamic Cairo, it is Egypt's oldest degree-granting university and is known as one of the most prestigious universities for Islamic ...

in Cairo, Egypt. He worked as an architect in the Ministry of Hajj and Endowments in Riyadh for 13 years before joining the faculty of the

Islamic University of Gaza The Islamic University of Gaza (), also known as IUG and IU Gaza, is an independent Palestinian university established in 1978 in Gaza City. It was the first higher education institution to be established in the Gaza Strip. The university has ...

as its first head of the department of architecture in 1993.

Political career

He was the Minister of Communications and Information Technology in the

under

Ismail Haniyeh Ismail Haniyeh (, ; 29 January 1962 – 31 July 2024) was a Palestinian politician who served as third chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from May 2017 until Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, his assassination in July 2024. He also served as ...

from 17 March to 14 June 2007. Al-Mansi was appointed by Hamas as the Minister of Public Works in Gaza by January 2011. Al-Mansi was arrested during the

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on 5 December 2023 and was questioned by Israeli authorities beginning on 7 December. He is considered the highest-ranking Hamas government figure whose capture has been announced.

References

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