German police on Wednesday arrested three suspected Hamas members for allegedly procuring weapons to carry out “assassinations targeting Israeli or Jewish institutions,” according to a CNN report.
Prosecutors said the suspects, arrested in Berlin, “have been involved in procuring firearms and ammunition” for the terrorist group Hamas since at least this summer, CNN reported. Authorities have charged the three individuals with membership in a foreign terrorist organization and preparing an act of violence endangering the state.
The suspects—two German citizens and one born in Lebanon—are scheduled to appear in court on Thursday. Their arrests came just a day before Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
During the arrests, officials discovered “various weapons, including an AK-47 assault rifle and several pistols, and a considerable amount of ammunition,” prosecutors said.
This is not the first time that German authorities have investigated suspected Hamas operatives. In February, four men arrested in a joint German-Dutch operation went on trial in Berlin, accused of plotting attacks on Jewish institutions across Europe and of working under the direction of Hamas leaders.
President Donald Trump has likewise cracked down on anti-Semitism, which surged in the United States following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel. The Trump administration has withheld billions in federal funding from universities that fail to protect Jewish students on campus and revoked visas of foreign nationals linked to anti-Semitic activity.
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