An Israeli Jewish settler was lightly wounded in the shoulder Thursday when Palestinian gunmen shot him from a passing car in east Jerusalem, reported Haaretz newspaper.
The settler, 33, from the Ma'ale Adumim Jewish settlement in the West Bank, was waiting at traffic lights when a burst was fired from a passing car, said the paper, adding that the assailants sped off in the direction of the West Bank city of Ramallah.
This is the third attack in the same area in the past three months.
Jerusalem police chief, Mickey Levy, said the attackers could have come from any of the Arab villages in the vicinity or from the Palestinian city of Ramallah, just north of Jerusalem.
"It was not the first Palestinian shooting attack at the same road junction," he said. "We have arrested a number of shooting cells in that area. Apparently this is a new one," he told the paper.
Responding to the attack, Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert was quoted as telling Israel Radio that "[Palestinian President] Yasser Arafat's main goal is to ignite Jerusalem and the area surrounding Jerusalem so as to bring about international intervention or pressure."
Meanwhile, AFP reported that a car exploded near an area in the West Bank city of Hebron.
The agency said the explosion could have been of a car bomb that exploded prematurely, but did not say if there were any victims.
A Palestinian police official in Hebron told the agency he was not aware of such an explosion – Albawaba.com
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