BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany will ban the pro-Palestinian group Samidoun, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Thursday, adding that its members were celebrating Islamist Hamas “terror” in Israel on German streets.
“Our law governing associations is a sharp sword. And we, as a strong constitutional state, will draw this sword,” Scholz said in an address to parliament in Berlin.
The group, which identifies as a Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, posted photos on Instagram on Sunday of pro-Palestinian activists distributing sweets in Berlin in celebration of Saturday’s Hamas attack in Israel.
The group has been organising pro-Palestinian protests and is now monitored by Berlin’s domestic intelligence agency, according to German magazine Der Spiegel.
(Reporting by Riham Alkousaa, Miranda Murray and Thomas Escritt; Editing by Rachel More)
