A stabbing attack in a central transit hub in Israel has left one man dead and four injured.
The incident took place in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, with officers saying the assailant was killed.
A spokesman said the suspect was an Israeli citizen, without disclosing more details about his identity.
Palestinian militant group Hamas praised the attack but did not claim it, saying: "This operation comes in the context of the natural response to the ongoing crimes of the occupation against our people."
Israeli police guard the area where a suspected stabbing attack took place in Haifa
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Israeli police work at the site where a suspected stabbing attack took place in Haifa
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Israeli police work at the site where a suspected stabbing attack took place in Haifa, Israel
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid tribute to the 70-year-old man who was killed in the attack in a statement condemning "those who seek to take our lives everywhere" and pledging to "fight and defeat them".
Initial eyewitness reports suggested that the attack was a combined stabbing and shoooting spree, with other victims including a teenage boy, a woman in her thirties and another in her seventies.
It comes as tensions are rising between Israel and Gaza after the first phrase of a ceasefire ended with no suggestion or agreement as to what will happen next.
Israeli fire killed at least two people in Rafah and injured three others in Khan Younis in the south of the heavily bombarded conclave, raising fear among Palestinians that the ceasefire could collapse altogether.
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Destroyed buildings in North Gaza
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A total blockade on all supplies, including food and fuel, to sustain the 2.3 million Gazans living among the ruins was suspended by the Israeli government.
Hundreds of lorries carrying supplies were backed up in Egypt - with denied permission to enter. Gaza residents said shops had been swiftly emptied of all supplies and the price of a sack of flour had more than doubled overnight.
Salah al-Hajj Hassan, a resident in Jabalia, on Gaza's northern edge where families have returned to destroyed homes to live in the rubble, told reporters: "Where will our food come from.
"We are dying, and we don't want war or the alarm bells of displacement or the alarm bells of starving our children."
A satellite image shows trucks waiting on the Egyptian side of the Gaza-Egypt border crossing
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Sunday it had adopted a proposal by President Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, for a temporary ceasefire for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and Jewish feast of Passover, ending around April 20.
However, the truce would be conditional on Hamas releasing half of the remaining living and dead hostages on the first day, with the remainder released at the conclusion if an agreement is reached on a permanent ceasefire.
Hamas said it remains committed to the originally agreed ceasefire that had been scheduled to move into a second phase, with negotiations aimed at a permanent end to the war, and hostages could be released only under that plan.
