Palestinian killed after striking car into 6 Israeli policemen in Jerusalem

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian driver who crashed his car into a police roadblock, injuring six officers, in a flashpoint Jerusalem neighbourhood on Sunday.

The incident took place in Sheikh Jarrah, in Israeli’s East Jerusalem, which is the focus of a court case in which several Palestinian families could be evicted from homes belonging to Jewish people.

The video showed a car crashing at high speed into the roadblock in what police said was a deliberate attack. Police said officers opened fire, killing the driver, whose name was not revealed at the moment

Abu Ubaida, a spokesman for Gaza’s ruling Hamas Islamist militant group, praised the attack which he described as the “heroic and daring operation” in Sheikh Jarrah.

Hamas started rocket strikes on Israel on Monday following the weeks of tensions over the possible Sheikh Jarrah evictions and clashes between police and Palestinians at Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.