Next Monday marks the first anniversary of the unprecedented attack that led to the outbreak of war in Gaza Strip And a conflict with Hamas’s allies in Lebanon, Iran and elsewhere.
Thomas Haldenwang, head of the domestic intelligence service, said that unrest in the Middle East tends to provoke reactions in Germany.
He warned of “a high possibility of sympathy, polarization, and extremism” on the anniversary.
In addition to the official commemoration of the attack, a number of pro-Palestinian demonstrations are scheduled to take place in Germany On weekends and Mondays.
In Berlin, police union spokesman Benjamin Yedro said, “We are very concerned (about what may happen) in the coming days” after “we witnessed hatred, anti-Semitism, and violent abuses” on the part of some pro-Palestinian activists.
Haldenwang pointed out in his statement that the number of crimes carried out on an anti-Semitic background rose to its highest levels since the start of the Gaza war.
He added, “The potential danger of terrorist attacks targeting Jewish and Israeli individuals and institutions, as well as the West as a whole, has increased significantly in the past six months.”
And it resulted Hamas attack On October 7, 1,205 people were killed in Israel, most of them civilians, according to an Agence France-Presse count based on official Israeli figures.
The Israeli military response resulted in the deaths of at least 41,802 people in the Gaza Strip, most of them women and children, according to figures from the Hamas Ministry of Health. The United Nations described these numbers as reliable.
