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13.38 Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch has spoken toThe Times of Israel.
From day one when the fighting started in the south, we knew we might see an incident like this of terrorism.
From day one when the fighting started in the south, we knew we might see an incident like this of terrorism.
Two policemen from Police Headquarters [located in northern Jerusalem] and a policeman who was on a motorcycle nearby responded [as the attack was underway].
They reacted quickly, charged, killed him. That’s the response I expect from officers of the Israel Police.
13.07 Palestinians and Israel accused each other of breaking a seven-hour ceasefire intended to allow humanitarian aid into the battered Gaza Strip soon after it came into force on Monday, Reuters reports.
Palestinians said Israel had bombed a refugee camp in Gaza City, killing an eight-year-old girl and wounding 29 other people, while Israel said at least four rockets had been fired at its territory from Gaza.
Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra said the air strike on a house in Shati camp took place after the truce was scheduled to start on Monday morning.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said she was checking the refugee camp attack. She said four rockets had been fired from Gaza since the truce started and two had crashed inside Israel. There were no reports of casualties or damage.
13.06 Palestinian groups, including representatives from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, held their first formal meeting in Cairo on Monday with Egyptian mediators hoping to pave the way towards a durable ceasefire agreement with Israel, Reuters reports.
12.59 "A 25-year-old man was run over by the excavator and killed, and the bus driver was moderately to lightly injured," emergency services spokesman Zaki Heller told AFP, saying another four people were lightly hurt in the incident which police described as a "terror attack".
12.51 Iran president Hassan Rowhani and Iranian foreign minister Mohamd Javad Zarif attend the international conference on Gaza in Tehran
12.44 There are reports of a British national killed in Rafah, Gaza and the Foreign Office has said: "We are aware of reports of the death of British national in Rafah, Gaza and are urgently looking into them."
12.34 Inna Lazaerva, who is in Israel, confirms the reports mentioned just now.
An attack took place in Jerusalem in the past hour, killing one and injuring six others.
A man rammed a tractor into an empty bus in Jerusalem as passers by waited at a bus stop nearby.
The driver of the tractor was shot dead by a policeman, one 30-year- old man who was near the bus at the time died after being critically injured, six others are wounded.
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