The attack in Israel’s coastal city of Haifa came a day after Israel blocked aid flowing into Gaza
HAIFA (ISRAEL) – A stabbing in the Israeli city of Haifa on Monday left one person and the attacker dead, authorities said, in the first such fatal attack since the Gaza ceasefire began in January.
The attack came one day after Israel blocked aid to the Gaza Strip during an impasse over extending the truce in the Palestinian territory.
The six-week first phase of the truce ended at the weekend. It had enabled the entry of vital food, shelter and medical assistance to Gaza. The Israeli decision prompted the United Nations to call for an immediate restoration of the aid.
Monday’s attack happened at a bus and train station in Haifa, a large coastal city in northern Israel home to a mixed Jewish and Arab population.
Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service said they pronounced dead a man aged around 70, and treated four other wounded people.
Police called it a “terrorist” attack, and said the perpetrator was killed. They identified the assailant as a member of Israel’s Druze Arab minority.
After the Gaza war began on October 7, 2023, repeated attacks — often involving knives — killed or wounded people in Israel. Authorities often blamed “terrorists”, a term they use for incidents linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
– Violence largely subsided –
Until Monday, the Gaza truce had coincided with a halt to such attacks within Israel, as violence largely subsided in Gaza after more than 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas.
Hamas’s attack that sparked the Gaza war resulted in the deaths of more than 1,200 people in Israel, mostly civilians, while
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