The Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that his occupation entity is determined to use "all needed force" to quell Palestinian assaults following a Jerusalem courageous attack that left five Israelis injured.

The Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that his occupation entity is determined to use "all needed force" to quell Palestinian assaults following a Jerusalem courageous attack that left five Israelis injured.

Netanyahu has praised the performance of security forces who opened fire on a Palestinian driver and killed him as he rammed his car into a crowd of Zionist settlers in Jerusalem, his spokesman Ofir Gendelman said on Twitter.

"We're determined to continue fighting terrorism and to employ all needed force to achieve this mission," Gendelman quoted Netanyahu as saying.

The vehicular operation took place near a Zionist border police base located on the street separating East Jerusalem and West Jerusalem, occupation police said.

The Zionist spokesperson Luba Samri said the driver had left the car following the attack and appeared to be holding a knife, at which point police fired at him again.

The driver suffered major wounds and was transferred to a hospital where he remains in custody.

The past few months saw an uptick in violence in the occupied Palestinian territories that left several deaths and injuries on both sides.

Several Zionists were killed or wounded amid a rise in Palestinian attacks on the Zionist as tension in the region mounts.

Occupation forces, meanwhile, have continued their attacks on Palestinians and their lands in the occupied territories, also leaving several dead or wounded.

The Zionists occupied East Jerusalem during the 1967 Middle East War. They annexed the entire city in 1980, claiming it as the capital of the self-proclaimed "Jewish state", a move never recognized by the international community.