Germany takes steps to restrict Hamas support, ban Samidoun
Germany's domestic intelligence agency chief told parliament he intends to swiftly and decisively enforce the changes. Chancellor Olaf Scholz had announced the plan last week, in light of Hamas' terror attack on Israel.\ The Samidoun organization drew attention on the day of Hamas' terror attack on Israel, as a member handed out sweet snacks in Berlin in celebration The Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, Germany's domestic intelligence agency, said it was working to ban support of the militant group Hamas and to outlaw the pro-Palestinian network Samidoun, at the earliest opportunity. "We are working with all available capacities to ensure the implementation of the measures as quickly as possible," the body's president, Thomas Haldenwang, told Germany's Bundestag in a special briefing on Monday. In an address to the Bundestag parliament last week, Chancellor German Olaf Scholz vowed to ban all Hamas activities in Germany and to prosecute anyone i...