A Palestinian man is to be stripped of his newly granted German citizenship after posting a photo showing support for Hamas.

A day after celebrating the arrival of his German passport, the man, referred to only as Abdallah, uploaded a picture to Instagram showing Hamas fighters with the caption “heroes of Palestine”.

Shortly afterwards, he received a letter from Germany’s interior ministry saying his citizenship had been revoked, according to the local Bild newspaper.

In 2024, it reformed its citizenship laws to require applicants to respect its “free-democratic order. New questions were also added about Jewish life and Israel’s “right to exist” in the German citizenship test.