The suspect, reportedly a 17-year-old Palestinian from Qabatiya, was armed with a Carlo-type submachine gun and shot at a police post. A terrorist attack took place in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday evening, Israel Police reported.

The Egyptian military has reported several operations against Islamist insurgents in the Sinai Peninsula recently.

Muqtada al-Sadr’s calls to restore the “Shiite Home” were viewed as an attempt to revive the electoral Shiite alliance that cracked during recent legislative elections.