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Four members of the militant Islamist group Hamas were arrested in Berlin and the Netherlands, German prosecutors said on Thursday.
The four people, Abdelhamid Al A., Mohamed B., Ibrahim El-R. and Nazih R., were arrested on suspicion of planning attacks on Jewish institutions in Europe by finding and storing weapons in Berlin, prosecutors said in a statement.
Prosecutors said the group were “long-time members of Hamas and participated in Hamas operations abroad.”
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According to prosecutors, the men have close ties to the military branch of the organization.
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Federal prosecutors arrested four suspected members of the Islamist Hamas on Thursday in Berlin and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. (Paul Zinken/Picture Alliance via Getty Images)
One of the men has Dutch nationality, two were born in Lebanon and the fourth has Egyptian nationality.
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According to prosecutors, Abdelhamid began searching for an “underground weapons cache” on behalf of Hamas in the spring of 2023, just months before Hamas terrorists launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel in October.
Hamas terrorists gather in Gaza City, Gaza in 2017. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images/File)
According to German prosecutors, the hidden weapons were stored and taken to Berlin to be “held ready for possible terrorist attacks against Jewish institutions in Europe.”
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Authorities said the four men worked together and traveled from Berlin “several times” in October 2023.
Berlin police officers leave a house with confiscated evidence on Thursday. (Paul Zinken/Picture Alliance via Getty Images)
German prosecutors said in a statement that three Hamas-linked suspects were arrested in Berlin, Germany, and one in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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According to the public prosecutor's office, the three men arrested in Germany are expected in court on Friday, December 15th.
After the arrests, Federal Justice Minister Marco Buschmann said that Jews in Germany must be “protected” so that they “don’t have to fear for their safety again.”
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“After the terrible attacks by Hamas on the Israeli population, attacks on Jews in Jewish institutions have also increased in our country in recent weeks,” Buschmann said in a translated X article. “We must therefore do everything we can to ensure that the Jews in our country do not have to fear for their safety again.”