Unrest escalated here the day after a Palestinian driver rammed into a crowded train station and killed a 3-month-old Israeli girl, punctuating a surge in violence in the city over the past few months that hasn't been seen since the first Palestinian uprising 25 years ago, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Israelis and Palestinians staged angry demonstrations on Thursday over the killing in predominantly Arab East Jerusalem a day earlier. Holding signs calling for revenge, dozens of Israeli youths crowded the light rail station that Israel said was targeted by Abdel Rahman Shaloudi, a resident of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, in an act of terrorism.
But some Palestinians questioned whether Mr. Shaloudi drove into the station by accident. Police said they shot him as he tried to flee the scene, and he died hours later.
Masked youths clutching stones stood Thursday under banners for the Gaza Strip's Islamist Hamas rulers near Mr. Shaloudi's home in the cramped streets of impoverished Silwan. The youths praised him as a martyr, and vowed retaliation.
Jawad Siyam, a neighborhood activist, said eight Palestinians were injured Thursday evening in clashes that lasted for hours.
The latest wave of violence in the holy city was triggered by the same events that set off the summer war in the Gaza Strip. In early July Jewish vigilantes abducted a Palestinian teenager in East Jerusalem, choked and beat him, then burned him alive after dousing him with gasoline. Police said it was a revenge attack for the killing of three Israeli teenagers, found dead in the West Bank days earlier.
The twin attacks also set off the 50-day war in Gaza. The unrest in East Jerusalem persisted in the shadow of the war, but has continued in the two months since fighting ended.