CCTV footage captured the moment a driver rammed his vehicle into a railway stop in Jerusalem yesterday, dragging several people along the road. Israeli police, who shot him dead, said the incident appeared to be a deliberate terrorist attack.

Police said after driving into the railway stop, the Palestinian man crashed into a nearby junction, got out of his vehicle and tried to attack people with a metal bar.

At least one person was killed, and an ambulance service spokesman said eight people were injured, two of them critically.

Police say the driver rammed a white van into three paramilitary border policemen who were crossing the street, and then into people at the railway stop.

An Israeli security official has named the driver as Ibrahim Akari from East Jerusalem. Militant Islamist group Hamas has claimed responsibility for what it called "the heroic running-over operation".

The incident took place on a road that straddles predominantly-Arab East Jerusalem and an adjacent ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood.

It was the second such incident in two weeks in Jerusalem. On October 22, a Palestinian motorist drove into another train station, killing a baby girl and a woman before he was shot dead by Israeli police.

The light railway in Jerusalem links Arab and Jewish areas, and has been portrayed by Israel as a symbol of unity in the contested city.

Jerusalem sees daily Palestinian protests amid tensions over a sacred compound which Muslims know as Noble Sanctuary and Jews refer to as Temple Mount.

Hours before the road attack, Israeli security forces hurling stun grenades clashed with Palestinians throwing stones at the Al-Aqsa Mosque which sits on the controversial compound.

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Dramatic surveillance video shows vehicle mowing down pedestrians in Jerusalem

CCTV footage shows a Palestinian man driving his car into pedestrians at a railway stop in Jerusalem.