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| Digger driver shot in Jerusalem | |
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| The driver of a construction vehicle in Jerusalem has been shot by police and another driver after he rammed a police car and an empty bus. | |
| Details of the incident are still coming in but it appears to echo two attacks by Palestinians on the streets of Jerusalem in July 2008. | Details of the incident are still coming in but it appears to echo two attacks by Palestinians on the streets of Jerusalem in July 2008. |
| Israeli police are calling the incident in Malah, a terrorist attack. | |
| Tensions are currently very high between Israelis and Palestinians after Israel's military offensive in Gaza. | Tensions are currently very high between Israelis and Palestinians after Israel's military offensive in Gaza. |
| The authorities said a Palestinian rammed into a bus and police car, wounding two officers before being shot by an officer who was inside the police vehicle by a passing taxi driver. | |
| The driver - who has not been identified - was initially reported as having been shot dead although later reports said he was critically wounded. | |
| On 2 July 2008, a Palestinian killed three Israelis and wounded 45 more when he rammed the front-end loader he was driving into buses and cars in Jaffa Street, before being shot dead. | |
| Three weeks later 16 people were wounded in a similar incident, and the attacker also killed. | |
| Suicide bomb attacks by militants from the West Bank have been greatly reduced after reaching a peak in the early 2000s. Recent attacks appear to have been launched mostly by enraged individuals from mainly-Arab East Jerusalem. |