Seven Israelis were injured on Friday morning by a Palestinian who first plowed his car into a crowd and then left it wielding a knife.

Seven Israelis were injured on Friday morning by a Palestinian who first plowed his car into a crowd and then left it wielding a knife.

The operation took place by the entrance to a Border Police base near the light rail station which serves the Old City's Damascus Gate, Israeli daily reported on Friday.

The Palestinian attacker, a resident of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras el-Amud, first drove his car onto the pavement and rammed it into a group of Border Patrol soldiers. Upon being shot at by members of the Border Police, he left the car wielding a knife - and was then shot and critically wounded.

The seven Israelis wounded in the attack were evacuated to Hadassah Har Hatzofim hospital. Two of them were hospitalized in moderate condition, and the others with light injuries. Two policewomen are among the wounded.

The Palestinian man was taken to Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in critical condition.