(24 Jun 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Haifa, Israel – 24 June 2025
1. Haifa resident Moshe Kenigsberg moving stuff inside truck, UPSOUND (Hebrew) "We want a ceasefire, look at the people, look at the cafes. They started to go out. They started to breathe. People want to breathe. A week and half already we are inside shelters.. with the children. Look at the cafes. They started to work."
2. Mid of people sitting at café
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Erez Izenberg, Haifa resident:
"I think both sides need it and want it, but we'll see how it's going to develop. You can't know. Only time will tell if it's going to hold, if it is real, if not real, who knows?"
4. Close up of newspaper headline reading (Hebrew) “Striving for the end”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Shorkend, Haifa resident:
"I want to say to everybody that everything is ok. I don't hear news and everything is ok and life is good. Look at the sun. Life is beautiful. Enjoy life."
6. More of people sitting at café
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Revzen, Haifa resident:
"Do I believe that the ceasefire will hold? I hope so. I don't know. You can't trust them. But if it doesn't, they know what Israel's answer will be and they won't have a response because we control the skies and they are the snake itself has been strangled. “
8. Man sitting inside restaurant
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammad Attiya, Haifa resident:
"I hope that it will last long and it will lead eventually to peace. That's all I think and I wish us luck and all of us."
10. End shot of banner on building reading (Hebrew) "Where is your public safe area? The Haifa municipality strengthens the residents of the city, we are with you."
STORYLINE:
Residents of Haifa in northern Israel reacted on Tuesday to the announcement of a ceasefire with Iran.
Many of them expressed hope that the ceasefire would endure.
"I think both sides need it and want it, but we'll see how it's going to develop. You can't know, only time will tell if it's going to hold," said Erez Izenberg, a Haifa resident.
"I hope that it will last long and it will lead eventually to peace." Said Mohammad Attiya, another resident of Haifa.
Israel and Iran on Tuesday accepted a ceasefire plan proposed by President Donald Trump to end their 12-day war that roiled the Middle East, after Tehran launched a limited, retaliatory missile attack on a U.S. military base in Qatar.
The acceptance of the deal by both sides came after Iran launched a final barrage of missiles targeting Israel that killed at least four people early Tuesday morning, while Israel launched a blitz of airstrikes targeting sites across the Islamic Republic before dawn.
However, Israel’s military said it had detected another Iranian missile launches hours after the start of the ceasefire, showing how dangerous the situation remained.
Sirens sounded in northern Israel and explosions could be heard as Israeli air defenses fired.
An Israeli military official who spoke ... [truncated]
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