DENMARK and Germany announced the arrests on Thursday of several terror suspects, including alleged Hamas members suspected of plotting attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions in Europe over the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

The announcements were issued separately and it was unclear how the arrests were connected and if they were the result of co-ordinated actions, or even possibly one operation.

Danish police said three people were arrested across Denmark while a fourth person was detained in the Netherlands on suspicion of plotting to carry out “an act of terror.”

Officials in Copenhagen did not provide any details beyond saying the arrests had “threads abroad” and were “related to criminal gangs,” singling out the banned, predominantly immigrant gang Loyal to Familia that had long been behind feuds, violence, robberies, extortion and drug sales in the Danish capital.

In Germany, authorities said four suspected members of the Palestinian Hamas group who were allegedly planning attacks on Jewish institutions in Europe were arrested on Thursday.

Authorities only identified the men by their first names and the first initial of their last name, in line with German privacy rules.

The four were Abdelhamid Al A, born in Lebanon; Egyptian national Mohamed B; Dutch national Nazih R and Ibrahim El-R, born in Lebanon.