A car-ramming attack wounded several people including four police officers in the flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem on Sunday, police said, adding that the attacker was shot.

After the “vehicle-ramming attack” in the district, the scene of weeks of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces, the assailant was “shot by officers”, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said without giving details on the attacker’s condition.

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The wounded officers were immediately taken to local hospitals. There is no confirmation about the suspect’s condition yet.

Riyad al-Maliki, Foreign Minister of Palestine, on Sunday criticised countries that normalised the relations with Israel in 2020, while the Muslim nations slated Israel for “barbaric” attacks on the country.

“Normalisation and running towards this colonial Israeli system without achieving peace and ending the Israeli occupation of Arab and Palestinian lands represents support for the apartheid regime and participation in its crimes,” told al-Maliki in an emergency meeting of foreign ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

The latest reports say that Israeli strikes have killed 42 Palestinians in the Gaza strip on Sunday, which is the worst death count for a day yet in the week-long violence and clashes. 

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pleaded for an immediate end to the bloodshed and hostilities, warning that the violence could make the region into an “uncontainable security and humanitarian crisis”. “Fighting must stop. It must stop immediately,” said Guterres, calling the violence over the past week “utterly appalling”.