German police have arrested a Lebanese national on suspicion of membership of Hamas and planning attacks in Europe, stopping the suspect identified as “Mohammad S” at Berlin’s Brandenburg Airport on Friday evening after he arrived from Beirut, with federal prosecutors saying he helped procure 300 rounds of ammunition in August 2025 and was involved in an alleged plot targeting Jewish and Israeli institutions, adding that he is expected to be brought before a federal judge who will decide on pretrial detention, while authorities noted that he allegedly colluded with “Abed Al G,” one of three suspected Hamas members arrested last October during a meeting in Berlin for a weapons handover, two of whom are German nationals and another a Lebanese citizen, as police searches were also carried out at the time in Leipzig and Oberhausen, according to Der Spiegel; Hamas, which previously controlled Gaza but has been severely weakened by Israeli operations, is designated a terrorist organisation by the US, UK, Israel and many other countries, and carried out the October 2023 attacks on Israel that killed about 1,200 people and saw more than 250 taken hostage, after which, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, more than 70,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli military action, while German authorities also confirmed that another suspected Hamas member, also a Lebanese national, was arrested in November near the Czech border in a separate case.
