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Israel-Hamas War: What happened on day 155?

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 Israel Police use water cannons on protesters in Tel Aviv, March 9, 2024 (photo credit: ARIELLE SKLADMAN)
Israel Police use water cannons on protesters in Tel Aviv, March 9, 2024
(photo credit: ARIELLE SKLADMAN)

Terror attack against Israeli businessman thwarted in Peru - report

According to the Peruvian National Police's (PNP) post, the suspect in question is 56 year old Majid Azizi, who has Peruvian citizenship and has been living there since 1997.

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 A man holds a Peru flag during an anti-government demonstration in Lima, Peru January 24, 2023. (photo credit: REUTERS/PILAR OLIVARES)
A man holds a Peru flag during an anti-government demonstration in Lima, Peru January 24, 2023.
(photo credit: REUTERS/PILAR OLIVARES)

A suspect was arrested who is allegedly associated with the Quds Force, the foreign arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and was planning on killing an Israeli businessman in Peru, Peruvian police announced on a Friday post on X.

According to the Peruvian National Police's (PNP) post, the suspect in question is 56 year old Majid Azizi, who has Peruvian citizenship and has been living there since 1997.

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Canada says it will resume funding to UNRWA

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 breaking news (photo credit: JPOST STAFF)
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Canada will resume funding to the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), International Aid Minister Ahmed Hussen said in a statement on Friday, but did not give a timeline.

Ottawa had announced a pause on Jan 26 after Israel alleged some of the staff at the agency had been involved in the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.

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Families of hostages taken by Hamas receive sign of life from captives - report

Over 134 hostages remain in Gaza after being taken by Hamas terrorists on October 7. The IDF had previously announced that 33 of the remaining 134 had been killed in captivity.

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 Families of the hostages protest government inaction in bringing the hostages home, March 8, 2024. (photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)
Families of the hostages protest government inaction in bringing the hostages home, March 8, 2024.
(photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)

Families of Gaza hostages received signs of life from over a dozen of their loved ones taken in Hamas captivity, Channel 12 reported on Friday evening.

Channel 12 said that the IDF censor prevented further details from being published at this stage.

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Turkey charges six people with spying for Israel's Mossad

A Turkish court in January ordered the arrest of 15 people and the deportation of eight others suspected of having links to Mossad and targeting Palestinians living in Turkey.

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A Turkish flag, with the New and the Suleymaniye mosques in the background, flies on a passenger ferry in Istanbul, Turkey, April 11, 2019. (photo credit: MURAD SEZER/REUTERS)
A Turkish flag, with the New and the Suleymaniye mosques in the background, flies on a passenger ferry in Istanbul, Turkey, April 11, 2019.
(photo credit: MURAD SEZER/REUTERS)

Turkish authorities have arrested six people and charged them with spying for Israel's Mossad intelligence service, Turkey's intelligence agency (MIT) said on Friday.

On Tuesday, MIT had said police detained seven people, including a private detective, for selling information to Mossad. It said on Friday that six of them had been arrested, and one had been released on bail.

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US military airdrops more aid to Gaza, US official says

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The US military carried out its fourth airdrop of aid into Gaza on Friday, a US official told Reuters, amid an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in the crowded coastal enclave.

The Israeli offensive in Gaza, which is supported by the United States, has displaced most of the enclave's 2.3 million people and led to critical shortages of food, water and medicine.

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Israel-Hamas War: What you need to know

  • Hamas launched a massive attack on October 7, with thousands of terrorists infiltrating from the Gaza border and taking some 240 hostages into Gaza
  • Over 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were murdered, including over 350 in the Re'im music festival and hundreds of Israeli civilians across Gaza border communities
  • 134 hostages remain in Gaza, 33 of which killed in captivity, IDF says