German prosecutors arrested three suspected Hamas operatives in Berlin, seizing an AK-47, pistols, and ammunition, thwarting a planned terror strike on Israeli and Jewish institutions in Germany.
Germany’s federal prosecutors confirmed Wednesday the arrest of three Hamas-linked suspects in Berlin, accused of preparing a “serious act of violence” targeting Israeli and Jewish institutions on German soil.
The men, identified under German privacy laws as Abed Al G. and Ahmad I. (both German citizens) and Wael F. M., born in Lebanon, had allegedly been procuring weapons and ammunition for Hamas since the summer.
During their arrests, investigators seized a cache of weapons including an AK-47 assault rifle, several pistols, and large amounts of ammunition. According to Der Spiegel, anti-terror operatives had placed the suspects under close surveillance and intervened during a weapons handover in Berlin, preventing what prosecutors warned could have been imminent assassinations.
This marks the second major Hamas-linked case in Germany in recent months. In February 2025, four Hamas operatives went on trial for plotting attacks against Jewish institutions in Europe, a prosecution described as the first of its kind against Hamas terrorists in Germany. Last November, prosecutors charged another Hamas cell—including Lebanese, Egyptian, and Dutch nationals—also accused of stockpiling weapons in Europe.
Since October 7, 2023, when Hamas massacred Israelis in the largest terror assault on Jews since the Holocaust, Germany has banned all Hamas activity and cracked down on its affiliates. These arrests underscore Berlin’s sharpened stance: no tolerance for Hamas’s European networks, which prosecutors say maintain “direct ties to the group’s military wing.”
For Germany, still carrying the weight of its Holocaust history, the message is clear: Hamas’s genocidal ideology and violent plots have no safe haven in Europe.
