JERUSALEM/AMMAN, (Reuters) – Increasing strife over Jerusalem’s most volatile holy site plunged relations between Israel and Jordan into crisis yesterday, with Amman recalling its ambassador for the first time since the countries’ 1994 peace treaty.
In a sign of tensions, a Palestinian rammed his car into pedestrians in Jerusalem’s city centre yesterday, killing an Israeli paramilitary border policeman before he was shot dead by police. More than a dozen people were injured.
In a second attack later, a van driven by a Palestinian hit three soldiers in the occupied West Bank.
One was seriously injured and two others suffered moderate wounds, an Israeli ambulance service spokesman and police said.
Security camera footage showed the large van plough into the three soldiers at speed. Police said the van escaped the scene and a search had been mounted.
