The incident comes amid spiraling violence in Israel and the occupied West Bank, convincing one fed-up Jerusalem resident that all powers involved “want the division.”
“As a result of the ramming, there are two dead and another five injured,” an Israeli police statement said. Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek hospital said those who died were 8 and 20 years old.
“The suspect was neutralized on the spot” in Ramot, a Jewish settlement in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, the Israeli police said, describing it as a “terror” attack.
“Forces of the Jerusalem district, including a detective who was off duty, arrived quickly at the scene, and fired at the terrorist who was neutralized on the spot,” the police added in a separate statement.
An AFP journalist at the scene saw a blue car which had crashed into a bus stop. A pink children’s doll was among debris nearby.
A helicopter circled the scene overhead.
