A terrorist drove a car through a large group of people at a train station in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, killing one and severely wounding multiple others.
Terrorist group Hamas called the attacker "heroic" and called for "more such ... operations." He was killed shortly after the attack, according to Israel Hayom.
Border Police officers who were in the area pursued the terrorist, who eventually emerged from his vehicle carrying a metal bar and tried to attack security personnel before being shot and killed. [...]
The attacker was identified as Ibrahim al-Akri, a resident of east Jerusalem's Shuafat neighborhood. Akri's affiliation with Hamas was known to the defense establishment.
Wednesday's attack took place near the site of a similar attack two weeks ago, in which two people, a baby girl and a woman from Ecuador, were killed when an Arab terrorist intentionally slammed his car into a crowd at the Ammunition Hill light rail station. The terrorist, identified as Silwan resident Abed al-Rahman Shaludi, was killed by security forces as he tried to flee the scene.