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Four men were jailed in Berlin on Wednesday for being part of a network that stored weapons for potential attacks in Europe under the direction of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.<\/p>\n
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A court convicted the men, aged between 36 and 58, of membership of a foreign terrorist organisation jailing them for between four and six years.<\/p>\n
All four had helped build weapons depots as part of “preparations to carry out attacks on Jewish and Israeli targets in European countries,” presiding judge Doris Husch said.<\/p>\n
They were partially identified as Abdelhamid Al A. and Ibrahim El R., both born in Lebanon; Egyptian national Mohammed B; and Dutch national Nazih R.<\/p>\n
The men were arrested in December 2023, weeks after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.<\/p>\n
Nazih R. was detained in Rotterdam and the other three in Berlin.<\/p>\n
At the start of the trial in February 2025, prosecutors accused them of “establishing, maintaining and dismantling underground hideouts” where weapons were kept.<\/p>\n
Ibrahim El R., who ran a restaurant in Berlin, travelled to Bulgaria in 2019 to bury a chest full of weapons there, they said.<\/p>\n
He also brought a gun into Germany from another weapons depot in Denmark in 2019.<\/p>\n
Ibrahim El R., 43, was convicted of possessing illegal weapons and of membership of a foreign terrorist organisation. He received the longest sentence of six years.<\/p>\n
The men also tried to pick up weapons from a location in Poland, prosecutors said, but failed to locate them despite several attempts.<\/p>\n
The arms were to be used in attacks against locations such as the Israeli embassy in Berlin and the US military base at Ramstein in western Germany, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
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