3 Israeli Policemen Run Over, İnjured İn E. Jerusalem

Three Israeli policemen were injured on Saturday when a car ran over them in al-Tor town of East Jerusalem, Israeli police said.'



This was probably a "terrorist" attack, according to police spokesperson Luba Samri.



Al-Tor is the town of a Palestinian teenager who was shot and killed by Israeli police earlier in the day.



Police said the boy wanted to stab some policemen.



Samri said policemen hurried to the site of the car attack against the policemen and started investigating the event.



Soon after they arrived at the site, Israeli policemen fired live rounds in the air, Palestinian residents of al-Tor said.



Samri, for her part, did not mention the degree of the injury of the three policemen.



Recent months have seen an uptick in violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, which has led to deaths and injuries on both sides.



Several Israelis have been killed or injured amid increasingly frequent Palestinian attacks.



Israeli forces, meanwhile, continued to carry out raids on West Bank villages, frequently rounding up groups of young Palestinian men on claims they are "wanted" by Israeli authorities.



Israeli troops also typically use force to disperse weekly Palestinian demonstrations against the self-proclaimed Jewish state's decades-long occupation, which occasionally leads to fatalities among protesters.



Palestinians, meanwhile, decry frequent attacks by extremist Jewish settlers on their communities and property in the occupied territories.



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