Palestinian car rams into two Israeli police

Occupied Jerusalem: Two Israeli policemen were injured in occupied east Jerusalem Wednesday when they were hit by a car driven by a Palestinian, who was then shot dead, police said.

It was the latest in a string of lone-wolf attacks by Palestinians using their cars to ram pedestrians or police, in a trend which began in Jerusalem in October but has also spread to the West Bank.

The driver was identified by relatives as 41-year-old Emran Abu Dheim from the occupied east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabal Mukaber.

“We’re absolutely stunned by what’s happened,” a cousin of the driver told AFP, describing him as a very quiet man with five adult children.

“It was an accident and when he tried to reverse, they killed him,” he said, citing eyewitnesses at the scene.