{"id":819532,"date":"2026-07-22T22:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819532\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T22:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:29:09","slug":"toronto-man-facing-terrorism-charge-for-actions-during-pro-palestinian-protests-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819532\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto man facing terrorism charge for actions during pro-Palestinian protests, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Toronto police say a man is facing a terrorism charge after an investigation into his alleged actions at two pro-Palestinian protests in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Investigators allege the man made public statements calling for harm against Israeli and Jewish people at the demonstrations, which took place in May and September of that year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Police say they seized several devices while searching a Toronto home in March of last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">They say officers and RCMP then gathered evidence they allege shows the man associated with the designated terrorist group Hamas and acted for its benefit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Police say the 33-year-old suspect was arrested Tuesday and charged with participating in or contributing to the activities of a terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Police say they cannot provide further details on the alleged incidents due to a publication ban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led attacks on Israel killed around 1,200 people and saw more than 250 people taken hostage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry, which is part of the Hamas-run government, says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/topics\/israel-hamas-war\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/topics\/israel-hamas-war\/\">Israel\u2019s retaliatory offensive<\/a> after the Oct. 7 attack has killed more than 73,000 people. The health authority does not give a breakdown between civilians and militants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police say a man is facing a terrorism charge after an investigation into his alleged actions at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,3302,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-819532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-toronto","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}