The Israel-Hamas war|The attacks
Two dead in stabbings in Israel during the morning rush hour
A 66-year-old woman and a man in his 70s have been killed in a knife attack in Holon just outside Tel Aviv, the Times of Israel reports. Two more people were injured.
The stabbing was carried out during the morning rush hour, near a gas station and a park.
According to Israeli police, the perpetrator was from the occupied West Bank. The man is said to have been shot by the police.
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Details: 17 dead in Israeli attack on schools in Gaza
At least 17 people, many of them children, have been killed and several injured in Israeli attacks on two school buildings in northern Gaza on Saturday. This is stated by the Hamas-controlled civil defense in Gaza, according to several media.
Israel's military has confirmed the attack, saying the strikes hit command and control posts belonging to terror-labeled Hamas. According to Israel, the school buildings served as a hideout for Hamas terrorists.
Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the Gaza Civil Defense, says the schools housed Palestinians forced to flee their homes during the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
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Israel is said to have killed leaders of the Qassam Brigades
A Hamas commander has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the town of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, Reuters reports.
Hamas sources state that it is Haitam Balidi, one of the leaders of the militant Qassam Brigades, who has been killed, writes Arab News, a newspaper close to the Saudi government.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa said four other people were also killed in the attack.
The attack is said to have been aimed at a car. Israel's military says a group of terrorists was traveling in the vehicle, without providing any further details.
Netanyahu is pressured by his own: "Tell it like it is"
Israel's defense and intelligence chiefs do not believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants a ceasefire, according to leaked Israeli media reports.
During a meeting this week, the head of the security police Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, is said to have made the accusation openly. According to reports in Israel's Channel 12, he said:
- It does not feel like the Prime Minister wants the framework that is on the table.
He then allegedly turned to Netanyahu and said:
- In that case, you should say so.
Intelligence service Mossad's David Barnea is said to have given support to Bar. He is reported to have said:
- There is an agreement on the table. If we delay it, we may miss the opportunity. We have to take it.
Netanyahu, as several times before, hit back. He accused the defense leaders of being "soft" and "not knowing how to negotiate".
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