{"id":15390,"date":"2026-01-24T19:56:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T19:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=15390"},"modified":"2026-01-24T19:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T19:56:33","slug":"germany-arrests-suspected-hamas-member-over-alleged-attack-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=15390","title":{"rendered":"Germany arrests suspected Hamas member over alleged attack plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">German police have arrested a Lebanese national on suspicion of being a member of Hamas and planning attacks in Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The man, named as &#8220;Mohammad S&#8221;, was stopped at Berlin&#8217;s Brandenburg Airport after arriving from Beirut on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Federal prosecutors said that in August 2025 he helped procure 300 rounds of ammunition and was involved in an alleged plot to attack Jewish and Israeli institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He is due to be brought before a federal judge who will decide on a pretrial detention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Hamas, which controlled Gaza but has been severely weakened by Israeli operations in the territory, is considered a terrorist organisation by the US, UK, Israel and many other countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The militant Palestinian group carried out the attacks on Israel in October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 people taken hostage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Since then, according to Gaza&#8217;s Hamas-run health ministry, more than 70,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli military action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">German authorities say &#8220;Mohammad S&#8221; colluded with &#8220;Abed Al G&#8221;, one of three alleged Hamas members <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cgknpzrkyvno\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested last October<\/a> over planned attacks on Jewish and Israeli institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The three were reportedly arrested while meeting for a weapons handover in Berlin. Two of them are Germany nationals, another is from Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Around the time of the arrests, police searches also took place in the German cities of Leipzig and Oberhausen, Der Spiegel reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Separately, in November, German authorities arrested another suspected member of Hamas &#8211; also a Lebanese national &#8211; near the border with the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Germany #arrests #suspected #Hamas #member #alleged #attack #plot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German police have arrested a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}