Four individuals were killed in Jerusalem by a Palestinian driver, who rammed a lorry into a group of soldiers on Sunday, in what police have called a terrorist attack.
Three women and one man, all in their twenties, were killed and at least 13 more were wounded, medics say.
Police said the driver had been shot dead by soldiers from the group.
A bus driver who witnessed Sunday’s attack told Israeli radio that the lorry driver had ploughed into the group before reversing over victims.
Israel’s police chief Roni Alsheich said the attacker was from East Jerusalem and owned an Israeli driving license.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said security had been heightened throughout the city in response.
Police identified the driver as a Palestinian from Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem and said he was shot dead. A dozen bullet holes pockmarked the windscreen.
It was the deadliest Palestinian attack in Jerusalem in months and targeted officer cadets who were disembarking from a bus that brought them to the Armon Hanatziv promenade, a stone-laden and grass-lined walkway with a panoramic view of the walled Old City.
“It is a terrorist attack, a ramming attack,” a police spokeswoman said.
Police said the dead, three women and one man, were all in their twenties, without identifying them further. Soldiers’ deaths are announced in Israel only after families are notified.
Alsheich told reporters he could not rule out that the Palestinian was motivated by a truck ramming attack in a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12 people last month.
“It is certainly possible to be influenced by watching TV but it is difficult to get into the head of every individual to determine what prompted him, but there is no doubt that these things do have an effect,” Alsheich told reporters.
A wave of Palestinian street attacks, including vehicle rammings, has largely slowed but not stopped completely since it began in October 2015.
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