Israeli police arrests suspect in Jerusalem's vehicular attack

The Israeli police on Sunday apprehended a Palestinian man from east Jerusalem for a suspected militant vehicular attack in Jerusalem on Saturday night, police spokesperson Mickey Rosenfeld confirmed to Xinhua.

Fadi Saleh, a 31-year-old resident of Shuafat refugee camp, was arrested on Sunday morning in the camp, Rosenfeld said.

The attack occurred on Saturday night, as a car slammed into several Israeli border police officers standing on a road near the east Palestinian neighborhood of A-Tur. Three officers were wounded with one in moderate and two others in light conditions.

The attack was the third in a string of attacks happening during clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in east Jerusalem and the West Bank.

On Saturday, a Palestinian youth, Moahmmed Abu Ghannam, 17, was killed by Israeli border police near A-Tur.

According to the border police, Abu Ghannam from A-Tur attempted to attack paramilitary border police personnel at a checkpoint in the outskirt of Jerusalem. His family, however, told Palestinian media outlets that their son did not try to attack soldiers.

In another incident on Saturday, Israeli soldiers in Hebron shot dead a Palestinian man after charging he had tried to stab a border police officer.

Dozens of Palestinians were reportedly injured throughout the clashes with Israeli security forces over the weekend in a-Tur.

There are approximately 300,000 Palestinians living in east Jerusalem on lands Israel annexed during the 1967 Mideast War.

They suffer from crowdedness, poor infrastructure and education, and while they have permanent residency, but they are not allowed to vote in the national elections.

Tensions have been mounting between Israeli security forces and Palestinians living in east Jerusalem, as well as in the West Bank.