German police have arrested three men they suspect of preparing a serious act of violence against Jewish targets in Germany for Hamas, prosecutors say, a week before the second anniversary of the militant Islamist group's attack on Israel.

Prosecutors suspect the three men of being foreign operatives for Hamas and of being involved in procuring firearms and ammunition to be used for assassinations targeting Israeli or Jewish institutions in Germany, they said.

"In the course of today's arrests, various weapons, including an AK-47 assault rifle and several pistols, as well as a considerable amount of ammunition, were found," the federal prosecutors said in a statement.

The three, identified in line with German privacy laws only as German citizen Abed Al G, Wael F. M, born in Lebanon, and

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