The Zionist police announced Sunday that one soldier was wounded after a car bomb went off in Maaleh Audmim Settlement east of occupied Jerusalem.

The Zionist police announced Sunday that one soldier was wounded after a car bomb went off in Maaleh Audmim Settlement east of occupied Jerusalem, Al-Manar correspondent reported.

AFP said that a policeman had spotted a "suspicious" vehicle at a checkpoint in the West Bank near the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim and ordered the woman driver to stop. As he approached, she shouted "God is great" in Arabic and detonated the bomb.

The police originally said that the woman had died in the attack, but later said that she was still alive and had suffered serious injuries. The policeman sustained slight injuries.

The attack came hours after a pregnant Palestinian woman and her two-year-old daughter were killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza, after a day of violence that raised fears of a third intifada, or Palestinian uprising.

Al-Manar TV reporter said that the occupation soldiers might assaulted the Palestinian women in order to kill her, and that assuming that she has detonated an explosive device needs to be checked because the car was not greatly damaged.