Two people, including a six-year-old boy, have been killed after a car was driven into a group of people at a bus stop on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
Israeli police described the incident as a car-ramming attack and said the driver had been shot at the scene. It was unclear if he had been killed.
A man who said he had witnessed the attack from his car told Israel’s Channel 12 news an armed civilian had shot the suspect before a police officer arrived and also shot into the vehicle.
A volunteer medic with United Hatzalah ambulance service, who gave his name as Ariel Ben-David, told Army Radio: “Everyone was lying out, thrown about, in very bad condition. To our regret, one child did not survive.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the incident in Ramot, a Jewish settlement in east Jerusalem, as a terrorist attack and ordered security forces to be reinforced.
Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is responsible for police forces in the area, visited the scene.
Footage circulated on social media showing the crash in which several people were also injured.
A spokesman for Hamas, the proscribed organisation that controls Gaza, praised the attack as a “heroic operation” but did not claim responsibility.
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It comes during a period of high tension after seven people were killed by a Palestinian gunman outside a synagogue in Jerusalem last month.
That incident followed a deadly raid by the Israeli military that killed nine Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
