German authorities carried out searches yesterday morning in four different regions in Germany, aiming to find members and supporters of the Palestinian organizations Hamas and Samidoun, banned in the country, the Interior Ministry reported.
“We continue our consistent action once morest radical Islamists.
By banning Hamas and Samidoun in Germany, we have sent a clear signal that we do not tolerate any apology or support for Hamas’ barbaric terror once morest Israel,” Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said in a press release.
According to authorities, 15 properties were searched yesterday morning by order of the administrative courts.
The minister banned the activities of Hamas and the pro-Palestinian Samidoun network in Germany on November 2.
Hamas has around 450 members in Germany, according to official data, highlighting that its activities range from “expressions of sympathy, propaganda and even fundraising or donation activities” to “strengthen the central organization abroad”.
With regard to Samidoun, it is said that this network “advocates the use of violence as a means of asserting political interests and denies Israel’s right to exist”.
On November 2, Germany banned activities on its territory linked to Hamas, in particular those of an association whose members expressed support for the Islamist group’s attacks once morest Israel.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announced the measure, claiming that Hamas aims “to destroy the State of Israel”.
On October 12, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had anticipated that the Ministry of the Interior would “ban the activity of Hamas in Germany”, referring to an association close to him, Samidoun, “whose members celebrate terrorist acts more brutal.”
Samidoun is an organization “that carries out anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish propaganda under the pretext of being an association of solidarity with prisoners”, added the Minister of the Interior.
To justify its ban, he added that this movement “supported and glorified several foreign terrorist organizations”.
Germany has recorded hundreds of crimes linked to the war between Israel and Hamas since the start of the conflict, including a series of anti-Semitic incidents, including the throwing of two Molotov cocktails at a synagogue in Berlin.
