A Palestinian suspect has been shot and at least four people have been injured after an attack on pedestrians in Jerusalem, police say.
The attacker was shot and seriously wounded after a car rammed a group standing near a tram stop close to East Jerusalem, the predominantly Arab side of the city.
The driver got out of the vehicle and attempted to stab passers-by before being shot and wounded by security guards, police said.
Moshe Edri, a regional police commander, said: "The swift and determined response stopped the attack as it was beginning and prevented more innocents from being injured."
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the incident happened close to a border police station on the line separating West and East Jerusalem.
The incident is being treated as a suspected terror attack.
It happened on the Jewish holiday of Purim, when the streets are busy with pedestrians.
Israeli media reported that the injured were female border patrol officers and they suffered "moderate" and "light" injuries.
Police are trying to identify the attacker, but spokeswoman Luba Samri said initial reports suggested he is a Palestinian from East Jerusalem and the car was registered as belonging to a Palestinian from East Jerusalem.
The attack mirrors a series of incidents in the city last year in which Palestinians ploughed vehicles into groups of pedestrians, killing several people.
Tensions flared in Jerusalem last year, both before and after the war in Gaza, but the city has been relatively calm recently.
The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) agreed on Thursday to suspend security coordination with Israel in the occupied West Bank.
Officials are concerned this could have a knock-on effect on security throughout the territory.
The Palestinians want a state in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which have been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Middle East War, and in Gaza, a strip of land on the Mediterranean coast that is separated from the West Bank.
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