Berlin court sentences four Hamas members
A Berlin court on Wednesday sentenced four men to prison terms of between four and a half and six years for membership of Hamas in a case involving the procurement of weapons for the Palestinian militant group.
The court found that the men aged between 36 and 58, acted as “foreign operatives” responsible for the Palestinian militant group’s weapons cache in several European countries, including Poland, Bulgaria and Denmark.
The men were accused of setting up underground caches of weapons for potential use in attacks on Israeli and Jewish facilities in Europe over a long period.
The charge sheet lists possible targets including the Israeli embassy in Berlin, the Ramstein airbase operated by the United States military in Germany and the area around Berlin’s disused Tempelhof airport.
The men were detained in December 2023. Two are Lebanese-born, one is an Egyptian citizen, and the other is a Dutch national.
(dpa/NAN)
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