{"id":467118,"date":"2025-10-02T00:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/467118\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T00:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:35:19","slug":"germany-says-3-suspected-hamas-operatives-were-planning-jewish-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/467118\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany says 3 suspected Hamas operatives were planning Jewish attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 1 (UPI) &#8212; Three men suspected of being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Hamas\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamas<\/a> members were arrested on a number of charges by authorities in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>German federal prosecutors said Wednesday that three men arrested in Berlin on suspicion of being members of Iran&#8217;s terror syndicate Hamas were accused of gathering weaponry in order to carry out scores of planned attacks on Israeli or Jewish institutions, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2025\/10\/01\/germany-arrests-three-suspected-hamas-members-plot-attack-jews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/3-hamas-suspects-arrested-germany-accused-plotting-attacks-jews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/10\/01\/europe\/hamas-germany-arrests-israel-latam-intl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and CNN<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since at least the summer of 2025,&#8221; prosecutors stated, the three have been &#8220;involved in procuring firearms and ammunition&#8221; for Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>They added two of the men were German citizens and the third identified as Lebanese.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the three were identified as 44-year-old Syrian national Ahmad I., Abed Al G., 36, and 43-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Lebanon\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Lebanon\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"noopener\">Lebanon<\/a>-born Wael F. M.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors in Berlin charged them with membership in a foreign terrorist group and organizing an act of anti-state violence after police seized a stockpile of ammunition and weapons, including a slew of pistols and AK-47 assault gun.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, they will be in front a judge to determine if the three should be held in detention before a later trial.\n<\/p>\n<p>The arrests came just days after Israeli Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Benjamin_Netanyahu\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Benjamin Netanyahu\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"noopener\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2025\/09\/29\/Trump-Netanyahu-Gaza-war\/3551759153361\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed to a 20-point<\/a> U.S.-backed plan to end the bloody war with Hamas in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Gaza\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Gaza\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"noopener\">Gaza<\/a> Strip, now with credible U.N.-backed accusations of genocide, after he met Monday with U.S. President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Donald_Trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Donald Trump\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>It followed last month&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/UN-General-Assembly\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"U.N. General Assemby\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"noopener\">United Nations General Assembly<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2025\/09\/12\/new-york-un-votes-hamas-free-palestinian-government\/2821757013110\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vote to back an independent<\/a> Palestinian-run state that exists without leadership by Hamas militants as a condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 1 (UPI) &#8212; Three men suspected of being Hamas members were arrested on a number of charges&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[6505,32,2000,299,2194,1824,835,838,2582,155844,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-467118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-gaza","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-hamas","15":"tag-lebanon","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-u-n-general-assemby","18":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115301772422320642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}