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"This comes a week after a similar attack killed a baby girl", reports Yolande Knell
A driver has rammed a car into several pedestrians in East Jerusalem, police say, hours after clashes erupted at the city's holiest site.
At least three people were seriously wounded in the "suspected terror attack", a police spokesman says.
The suspect was shot dead by security officials, spokesman Micky Rosenfeld added.
The incident took place near the site of similar attack two weeks ago, which killed a woman and a baby.
The city has seen an escalation of tension, most recently over the shooting of prominent right-wing Jewish activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick, who remains in a critical condition.
The Temple Mount/al-Haram al-Sharif compound was briefly closed earlier to visitors after dozens of Palestinian protesters fought with police.
Rabbi Glick is a well-known campaigner for the right of Jews to pray at the site, which is currently prohibited.
The compound - known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif - is the holiest site in Judaism, and contains the al-Aqsa Mosque - the third holiest site in Islam.
In Wednesday's car attack, police said the vehicle struck more than a dozen people as they were getting off a tram, on the route that runs between East and West Jerusalem.
The driver then got out of his car and started attacking people with an iron rod, they said.
Medical sources say at least one person is in a critical condition.
Israeli media reports say the driver was from Shuafat refugee camp in the east of the city, but this has not been confirmed.
Earlier on Wednesday, dozens of masked protesters had hurled rocks and launched fireworks at police near the non-Muslim visitors' entrance to the site, Israeli police said.
They said they managed to disperse the crowd using stun grenades, and no arrests were made. Several police officers were injured in the incident, they added.
A Palestinian manager at the compound said some 20 people were wounded in the clashes, Reuters reports.
There has been an escalation in tension in the city since the Gaza conflict last summer, with nightly clashes seen in some East Jerusalem districts between Palestinians and Israeli security forces.
Last week, a Palestinian man suspected of attacking Rabbi Glick was shot after opening fire when Israeli police surrounded his home last week.
Hundreds of people turned out for the funeral of 31-year-old Moataz Hejazi.
Crowds of Palestinians also took to the streets to protest against the rare closure of Temple Mount/al-Haram al-Sharif last Thursday.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the decision to close the site was tantamount to a declaration of war.
Jerusalem's holiest site- Known as the Temple Mount to Jews and al-Haram al-Sharif to Muslims, it comprises the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, and is next to the Western Wall
- The Western Wall, from the time of the second Jewish Biblical temple, is the holiest site where Jews can pray; the Dome of the Rock, where according to Jewish tradition the Ark of the Covenant rested in the first temple, is the holiest site in Judaism
- The al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site in Islam; the Dome of the Rock is revered by Muslims because of its connections to the Prophet Muhammad
- Christians also venerate the site because of its Biblical links to Jesus
- A Muslim committee has managed the compound since the time of the Crusades, while Israel, which has occupied East Jerusalem since 1967, controls access
- Israel maintains a ban on prayer by non-Muslims at the compound as a security measure
- Rabbi Yehuda Glick campaigns for allowing Jews to pray at the site
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