A stabbing attack on Monday at a transport station in the Israeli city of Haifa left one person dead and several wounded, doctors said, in what police called a “terror attack” whose perpetrator was killed.
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It was the first fatal attack in Israel since a ceasefire took effect in the Gaza Strip on January 19 between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas.
The attack came with negotiations between Israel and Hamas Palestinian militants over Gaza’s ceasefire stalled after the deal’s first phase ended on the weekend.
Medical teams “have pronounced the death of a man around 70 years old and are providing medical treatment to and evacuating four injured individuals”, Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service said.
It said a man and woman around 30 years of age as well as a 15-year-old boy were seriously injured.
Israeli police label as “terror” attacks those connected to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but they have yet to confirm the identity of the perpetrator in Monday’s attack.