Palestinian gunman kills one, wounds 11 in Israel

Police commander Yoram Halevy said the attacker had entered the secured bus station and used a handgun to attack and kill a soldier and grab his assault rifle, which he later used to shoot at others.

A mob then kicked Zarhum, hit him on the head while he was on the ground and pinned him down with a chair, according to local reports and footage of the incident that has appeared online.

Israeli news websites posted security camera footage that shows Zerhom crawling on the floor and a security guard shooting him.

The site is sacred to Muslims and Jews, who refer to it as the Temple Mount.

Palestinians want the occupied West Bank and Gaza for a future state with Arab East Jerusalem as its capital.

Late Saturday, a few 2,000 pro-peace demonstrators answered a call by Israeli leftist groups and gathered in the centre of Jerusalem under the banner “Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies”, an AFP reporter at the scene saw.

Israeli media says security forces shot dead the attacker in a protracted gun battle and also shot a second man by mistake who later died in hospital.

Israeli police say they have launched an investigation.

Israeli security officials are identifying the assailant of an Israeli bus station attack as a 21-year-old Arab citizen of Israel. The violence quickly spread to the rest of Jerusalem, across Israel and into the West Bank and Gaza Strip. “Netanyahu has lost the ability to keep the safety of Israel’s citizens and Jerusalem’s unity”. A number of attackers have come from Jabal Mukaber.

Israel captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed the area in a move that is not recognized internationally.

Foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said, “It shows you what a bad situation we are in”. “It’s one more aspect of our security measures”.

Mr Netanyahu, one official said, ordered police not to extend the barrier. Writing in Hebrew on the barrier said it was a “temporary, mobile police barrier”. It did not prevent pedestrians from leaving or entering.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said extremists were trying to turn the current conflict into a religious one. The officer and other security forces accuse the Israel-based Islamic Movement and Hamas of fueling most of the incitement, but said there’s no hard connection or any guiding hand ordering up attacks.

The nearly three weeks of violence has killed 41 Palestinians, including assailants and demonstrators at anti-Israeli protests, eight Israelis and now one Eritrean.

A Palestinian demonstrator has a knife in his belt and rocks in his hand during clashes with Israeli troops near Ramallah, West Bank, on Sunday.

The daily attacks have caused a sense of panic across Israel and raised fears that the region is on the cusp of a new round of heavy violence.

The Palestinians’ unrest, the most serious in years, has been stirred in part by anger over what they see as increased Jewish encroachment on the mosque compound, Islam’s most sacred site outside Saudi Arabia and also revered by Jews as the location of two destroyed biblical Jewish temples.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting that Israel can not accept the resolution.

Abdul Kareem went on to add that Israeli prime minister’s sole goal is to maintain the status-quo by dismembering the State of Palestine.