European intelligence agencies have discovered and disrupted Hamas terror operations in more than half a dozen countries since October 7, revealing that the terror group under siege in Gaza is still willing to export their murderous vendetta against Jews and Americans to other countries, even other continents.

Islamist terror in Europe gained fresh notoriety after Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese heritage, attacked a Berlin Pride festival over the weekend with a van, then a machete, killing one woman and injuring 29 people. “Everything we see here points to us dealing with an Islamic terror attack,” said Germany’s Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt.

But, for all their hatred of gays, radical Islamist extremists hate Jews even more, making Jews the “number one” target on the terrorists’ hit list.

In early June, Greek forces arrested an Egyptian man of Palestinian origin, referred to as “Motasem,” in the Agios Nikolaos resort in Crete. Greek authorities found chemicals, a precision scale, and other bomb-making equipment in Motasem’s apartment in Athens. The arrest came after a tip from police in Cyprus, who had apprehended two Palestinian contacts of Motasem in the Cypriot town of Larnaca.

The Motasem cell, which may have included at least two other Palestinians, was reportedly planning an attack on an Israeli cruise ship scheduled to dock in Greece in June. Motasem apparently learned how to build bombs in Malaysia, after traveling there with a collaborator in 2025.

The Motasem trail also leads north to Germany, as he reportedly lived in Germany for “an extended period.” The cradle of the Protestant Reformation seems to function as a sort of crossroads to threads of radical Islamist terrorism across Europe.

Since October 2025, German authorities have arrested nine men suspected of terrorism, both in Germany and across Europe, in cooperation with other nations, including Austria, Denmark, and Great Britain. They believe that Hamas operatives had smuggled a number of small arms through Germany to store in hidden caches for later terrorist purposes. In London, authorities arrested the son of Hamas official Bassem Naim, who was targeted in Israel’s September 2025 airstrike on Hamas leadership in Qatar.

The alleged size of the smuggled arsenal is paltry by American standards (13 pistols, a single AK-47, and 900 rounds of ammunition), but such armaments go a long way against a disarmed civilian population.

This spring, four Hamas members were sentenced to years in prison in Berlin for establishing weapons caches across Europe. On the phone of one of the terrorists, German authorities found pictures of weapons caches that went all the way back to at least April 2019, shortly after the collapse of ISIS’s territorial hold in eastern Syria.

The search for these small weapons depots led Bulgarian police to discover a buried suitcase containing weapons in a thicket near Plovdiv. Other weapons caches were found in Poland and Denmark. More weapons are believed to be buried somewhere near the Germany-Poland border; German authorities observed Hamas members crossing the border repeatedly with shovels, backpacks, and boots, but they evidently failed to find what they were looking for, and German police eventually stopped them in December 2023.

German police believe that at least some of the Hamas terrorists they apprehended were planning an attack on Jewish, Israeli, or American targets on October 7, 2025, the second anniversary of Hamas’s terror invasion.

Unfortunately, Europe is no stranger to Islamist terrorism. On July 7, 2005, four suicide bombers launched coordinated attacks on the London Underground and a double-decker bus, killing 52 and injuring more than 700. On November 13, 2015, coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris killed 130 people and injured more than 350. These are not an exclusive list, merely the most notable incidents due to their high casualty count.

Nor is Europe a stranger to Islamist terrorism directed against Jews. During the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany, eight Palestinian terrorists infiltrated the Olympic Village and attacked Israeli athletes, killing two and taking nine hostage. The hostages all died in a failed rescue operation.

Yet the continued terror operations — at least the ones authorities have successfully unraveled — demonstrate that Islamist terrorists are still seeking to project their asymmetrical power into the heartland of Western nations, both before and after October 7. Even Europe’s shameful abandonment of Israel has not spared them from this Islamist threat. Europe must wake up to the reality that the Islamist world still views itself as locked in a life-or-death civilizational struggle against the West, whether Western nations struggle willingly or not.