Hamas-supporter Ibrahim al-Akari was shot dead by Israeli security but not before he had claimed one life and injured a dozen people in Jerusalem
A train passenger was killed and more than a dozen injured in Israel today after a militant Palestinian rammed them then attacked them with an iron bar.
Hamas-supporter Ibrahim al-Akari was shot dead by Israeli security minutes after he launched the attack on a crowded Jerusalem railway station platform.
It came after huge clashes between masked Palestinian protesters and armed Israeli police in the holy town's disputed Old City area.
PM Benjamin Netanyahu said the driver attack was "a direct result of incitement" by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.
A similar car attack by a Palestinian two weeks ago left a woman and a baby dead.
Jordan recalled its ambassador to Israel over what it called the "unprecedented Israeli escalation" at holy sites in Jerusalem and amid fears of further deaths.
Israeli media said the Hamas loyalist attacker who drove the car into a crowd was Palestinian Ibrahim al-Akari, originally from the Shuafat refugee camp in the east of the city.
His Facebook page stated was a member of Hamas, and the Twitter account for the group's armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, described him as a member.
Police investigating the attack viewed CCTV footage which filmed shows a white van speeding along a stretch of Route One that runs along the so-called Green Line between East and West Jerusalem.
At some point the vehicle slammed into pedestrians, including Israeli police officers, before mounting the platform of the tram that runs along the same road.
Later grainy pictures appear to show the Palestinian driver running erratically across the street before he is shot and killed.
East Jerusalem has suffered growing unrest Palestinian anger at Israeli settlement expansion on occupied land and restricted access to the al-Aqsa Mosque Compound, known to Jews as the Temple Moun.
Also Amnesty International's Families Under the Rubble report recently said Israel may be guilty of "war crimes" in its recent 50 day war against Gaza militants.
The report probes eight cases of targeted Israeli air strikes that killed at least 111 people, 104 of whom were civilians.
Amnesty rules some cases defined as a possible war crime.
Two weeks ago a Palestinian from the Abu Tor area of East Jerusalem drove his car into a tram station, killing a three-month-old baby and an Ecuadorean woman.
Today's clashes in Jerusalem at the al-Aqsa Mosque Compound began as Israeli police used tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets against a crowd of Palestinian protesters throwing stones and fireworks.
Those clashes spread to other East Jerusalem neighbourhoods, including the Shuafat Refugee Camp, home to the Palestinian car attacker.
