Man Wounded in Jerusalem Car Attack Dies

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An Israeli hospital official said a second Israeli has died after a car attack on pedestrians in East Jerusalem earlier this week. Israeli police said a Palestinian driver deliberately rammed into a crowd Wednesday, killing a police officer and wounding several more people, including the young man of about 20 who succumbed to his injuries Friday. Police fatally shot the driver when he got out of the vehicle. The car attack followed a clash between Israeli police and dozens of Palestinians who threw rocks at the officers near a disputed Jerusalem holy site after Jewish nationalists announced plans to visit the area. The militant Islamist group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The ancient compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, or the Noble Sanctuary, is a flash point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a move that drew international ire and triggered Jordan to recall its ambassador, Israel briefly closed al-Aqsa mosque inside the site last week amid growing unrest after police killed a suspected Palestinian gunman in a nearby Arab neighborhood. Access to al-Aqsa remains limited. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld announced early Friday that heightened security measures would continue in Jerusalem's old city and that men under age 35 remained banned from the holy site.



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