Israeli police stated forces had been dispatched to the scene to start investigations. Israeli safety forces additionally pushed into the close by Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan pursuing the suspected attacker.

The assault in Jerusalem adopted a tense week between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza and the West Financial institution.

Final weekend, Israeli plane unleashed an offensive within the Gaza Strip focusing on the militant group Islamic Jihad and setting off three days of fierce cross-border preventing. Islamic Jihad fired a whole lot of rockets through the flare-up to avenge the airstrikes, which killed two of its commanders and different militants. Israel stated the assault was meant to thwart threats from the group to answer the arrest of considered one of its officers within the occupied West Financial institution.

Forty-nine Palestinians, together with 17 kids and 14 militants, had been killed, and several other hundred had been injured within the preventing, which ended with an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire. No Israeli was killed or significantly injured.

The Islamic militant group Hamas, which controls Gaza, stayed on the sidelines.

A day after the cease-fire halted the worst spherical of Gaza preventing in additional than a 12 months, Israeli troops killed three Palestinian militants and wounded dozens in a shootout that erupted throughout an arrest raid within the West Financial institution metropolis of Nablus.