A gunman opened fire on a bus near Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday morning, injuring eight people.
The attack, allegedly carried out by a Palestinian, according to Israeli sources, comes a week after violence between Israelis and Palestinians broke out in the Gaza Strip.
Two of the victims were in serious condition, including a pregnant woman with abdominal injuries and a man with gunshot wounds to the head and neck, according to Israeli hospitals treating them.
The shooting occurred while the bus was waiting in a parking lot near the Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray.
Israeli police said forces were sent to the scene to investigate. Israeli security forces also entered the nearby Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in pursuit of the suspected attacker. Hours later, the police reported that the alleged attacker turned himself in. The identity of the alleged attacker has not yet been released.
Although the identity of the assailant has not been revealed, Israeli authorities have described the attack as a "terrorist attack" committed by Palestinians; while the Islamist group Hamas has celebrated it as a "heroic act of resistance".
The attack in Jerusalem followed a tense week between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Last weekend, Israeli planes launched an offensive in the Gaza Strip against the Islamic Jihad militant group, sparking three days of fierce cross-border fighting.
Islamic Jihad fired hundreds of rockets during the blast to retaliate for airstrikes, which killed two of its commanders and other militants.
Israel said the attack was meant to thwart threats by the group to respond to the arrest of one of its officials in the occupied West Bank. Forty-nine Palestinians, including 17 children and 14 militants, were killed and several hundred wounded in the fighting, which ended in an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire.
No Israelis were killed or seriously injured. The Islamic militant group Hamas, which controls Gaza, stayed out. A day after the ceasefire halted the worst round of fighting in Gaza in more than a year, Israeli troops killed three Palestinian militants and wounded dozens in a gunfight that erupted during an arrest raid in the West Bank city of Nablus.
