Overview

• Investigators seized an AK-47, several pistols and a large quantity of ammunition during the arrests, according to the federal prosecutor.
• Prosecutors identify two suspects as German citizens, Abed Al G. and Ahmad I., and a third as Wael F. M., who was born in Lebanon and whose nationality remains unconfirmed.
• Authorities say the trio had been acquiring firearms and ammunition in Germany since at least the summer of 2025 for the Palestinian Islamist movement.
• The suspects are described by the prosecutor's office as "foreign operators" of Hamas and are being pursued for terrorism-related offenses.
• Local reporting says anti-terror officers observed a weapons handover in Berlin and later conducted searches in North Rhine-Westphalia.