The attack took place in a bus station, police said, killing a 70-year-old man and injuring four others.
A 70-year-old man has been killed and four others wounded in a stabbing attack in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, officials said.
The attack took place in a bus station on Monday, Israeli police said, adding that the suspected assailant was killed.
“Paramedics and EMTs 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 also seriously injured.
Earlier, Eli Bin, head of emergency rescue service Magen David Adom, told Israeli media that four people were wounded in the stabbing attack.
It was not immediately clear who killed the attacker, whose identity was not immediately known.
AFP news agency said its journalists, who arrived after the wounded were evacuated, saw the attacker’s body on the ground under a blanket.
Images posted on social media also showed several emergency personnel tending to the injured, who were seen lying on the ground, as several ambulance were parked nearby.
Israeli police label as “terrorist” attacks those connected to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The attack came as negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas over Gaza’s ceasefire stalled after the deal’s first phase ended over the weekend.
On Sunday, Israel blocked the entry of humanitarian aid to Gaza after a disagreement with Hamas over extending the ceasefire.
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