Haifa, Israel – A knife in the northern Israeli city of Haifa left one person, and the attacker dead, said on Monday, in the first such a deadly incident since the ceasefire began in January. A knife attack occurred only every other day after Israel blocked help in the gas lane Among the deadlock with Hamas about how to extend the ceasefire in the reduced Palestinian territory.
The six -week first -phase of the truce ended on Saturday. This made it possible to enter vital food, shelter and medical care for about 2 million people living in gas, and a return of 33 Israeli hostages, both dead and alive. But it was not immediately agreed to preserve the relative peace.
Negotiations for The second transaction phase Until the appointment began, and Israel insisted on the weekend as the mediator, which he attributed to the Trump administration, would significantly change the approximate terms of the agreement, which was initially discussed.
Israel's decision to stop the entry of all assistance in the gas attracted a call from the United Nations and numerous Arab countries in the region for immediate resumption of truck convoys.
Death Attack in Haifa
The attack on Monday took place on the bus and railway station in Haifa, a large coastal city in northern Israel, where mixed Jewish and Arab population live. Israeli Magen David Ado of Emergency Situations said they had taken a dead man at the age of 70 and treated four more injured people.
Police called it a terrorist attack and said the criminal was killed, but there were unconfirmed reports that suggest that a man could be unintentional to suffer from a bullet that the Israeli security forces responded to a knife attack.
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After Israel began his war in Gaza in response to the unprecedented Hamas terrorist attack, repeated attacks – often with knives – saw people killed or wounded in Israel. By Monday, however, the ceasefire of Gaza coincided with the stop of such attacks in Israel, as the violence had largely subsided in Gaza after more than 15 months of the war between Israel and Hamas.
Police identified the attacker on Monday as a member of the Arab minority of Israel, who has recently returned from another uncertain country.
Hamas praised the attack in Haifa, calling it a response to the alleged Israeli crimes “on the Western Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem, including murder, destruction and relocation on the northern western shore, the siege of the newspaper, projections to the displacement of Palestinians from the Jordan Valley and the Decree of the Meche.
The US, the European Union and the Israeli terrorist group called on “our people on the Western Bank, Jerusalem and inside Israel to escalate the confrontation with the enemy and attract them using all available funds.”
Both Israeli and Palestinian sources reported fresh Israeli military strikes on Sunday, where the Ministry of Health reported at least four people.
Netanyahu pushes new conditions with Hamas under the obvious US proposal
Egypt's mediators and Qatar, who have concluded a ceasefire and hostage exchange agreement with the US, accused Israel of brazen ceasefire, stopping the escort – the move that left the trucks loaded on the Egyptian side of the Rafa border, crossing Gaza.
In the first six -week truce phase, there was also an exchange of prisoners and hostages between Israel and Hamas. Of the 251 captives taken during the attack by Hamas, Israel says 59 are still being carried out in gas from which at least 35 were killed.
At the beginning of Sunday, the Israeli government said he wanted to extend the first stage of ceasefire until the mid-April ceasefire stating that President Trump's Messenger Steve Witco offered. said Netanyahu Hamas must accept a new proposal and immediately convey half the other hostages before negotiations began at the second stage of the ceasefire agreement.
Hamas has repeatedly rejected the extension, instead preferring to transition to the second armistice phase, which can lead to a constant termination of the war and the abolition of Israeli Gazae forces, as provided in an agreement that reflects with the US and its regional partners.
Hamas called the decision of Netanyahu “The decision to suspend humanitarian aid – cheap blackmail, military crime and a brazen coup against the agreement (ceasefire).”
Egypt and Qatar, together with Saudi Arabia and Jordan, announced a decision to help Israel.
The European Union condemned that he called Hamas's refusal to accept the expansion of the first stage, and added that the next Israel's assistance unit “risked humanitarian consequences”.
Brussels called for a “rapid resumption of negotiations in the second ceasefire.”
Hamas caused war on Gaza since his October 7, 2023 terrorism on Israel, which resulted in more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and 251 are still hostage. The Israeli re -paying war has killed more than 48,300 people in the Palestinian enclave, also mostly civilians, the Ministry of Health reports.
The war also destroyed or damaged most buildings in gas, moved almost all the population and caused widespread hunger, according to the UN
On Sunday, Netanyahu stated that “he decided that from this morning all the entrances of goods and supplies to the Gaza Strip would be suspended,” accusing the group of ceasefire during the phase, and in control of humanitarian aid that entered the territory and “turning it into a budget to terrorism”.
“In terms of Witkoff, half hostages will be released immediately, and the rest will be released when we reach a permanent ceasefire agreement,” Netanyahu said on Sunday. “Israel has accepted this plan. I have accepted this plan. But still Hamas rejected it.”
His government warned that Hamas would be “consequences” if he did not accept the temporary expansion of the truce.
Under the first stage of ceasefire, the militants of Gaza were handed over 25 living hostages and eight bodies in exchange for about 1800 Palestinian prisoners who took place in Israel.
In Jerusalem, at the end of Sunday, the AFP images showed that the participants of the rally outside the Netanyahu residence urge their government to make a deal that will lead home the rest of Israeli hostages.
Netanyahu critics in Israel regularly accused him of delays for months of the truce.
Finance Minister Fluel Smotrich, leader of the extreme right faction in the ruling coalition of Netanyahu, threatened to quit when the war did not recover, and it may most likely make the national elections and make the Netanyah look for a new mandate at a time when the Israeli voter will be deeply divided.
Prime Minister too by trial for accusations of corruptionWhich he denies, and on Monday he appeared in court to show in the case, showed the video footage.