A representative for the Hamas group in Lebanon said Germany's ban on the group's activities showed that the country was in partnership with Israel on crimes against Palestinian people.
"This prompts us to question whether the German political mentality is a Holocaust mentality that affects all peoples and is not limited to one party or another," Osama Hamdan, the Hamas representative in Lebanon, said in a news conference on Thursday.
Germany will ban the activities of Hamas, already a designated terrorist organisation in the country, as well as pro-Palestinian group Samidoun, the interior minister announced on Thursday.