A Palestinian man who plowed his vehicle into a group of border policemen in Jerusalem was related to the gunman responsible for a previous attack in the city in 2008 that killed eight Jewish students, police said.

Amran Abu Dhaim of Jabel Mukaber was shot and killed by police after veering off the road and ramming his Jeep into a group of policemen who were on a routine patrol in the A-Tur neighborhood, beside Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus on Wednesday morning.

Israel Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the incident was being treated as a lone-wolf terror attack. The investigation is still ongoing, he added.

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Two of the injured officers sustained moderate wounds to their legs and hips. A third was lightly wounded. The injured officers were evacuated to hospital for treatment and were discharged later in the day.

According to police, the suspect is related to Alaa Abu Dhaim, the Palestinian gunman who stormed the Mercaz Harav yeshiva on March 6, 2008, and killed eight students, before being shot dead. All but one of the victims were aged 18 or under.

The gunman was killed by an IDF soldier who arrived on the scene. His family’s Jabel Mukaber home was ordered destroyed several months later, despite a number of appeals, as part of a controversial Israeli policy to deter attacks.

Amran Abu Dhaim also had link to Hamas’s military wing, Rosenfeld said, citing family ties to the group as well as a social media trail.

No organization claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dhaim was shot by a fourth officer on the scene after he tried to back up his vehicle and run over the injured officers again, police said. He was administered first aid at the scene but died shortly thereafter.

Several local residents pelted police and rescue services with rocks after the incident.

The incident was the latest in a string of lone-wolf attacks by Palestinians using their cars to ram pedestrians or police, in a trend that began in Jerusalem in October but has also spread to the West Bank.

Last week four people were hurt when a Palestinian motorist plowed through a bus stop outside Alon Shvut in the Etzion bloc of settlements. A suspect was arrested a short while later and was handed over to the Shin Bet security service for questioning. He was reported to be a Palestinian resident of Hebron.

On April 25 three policemen were injured in a car-ramming attack in the A-Tur neighborhood, near the site of Wednesday’s incident. Police fired on the vehicle as it sped away. It was later found abandoned, and security forces later apprehended the driver. Early the same day, a Palestinian teen from A-Tur allegedly attempted to stab a Border Police officer at a nearby checkpoint. A police officer shot the knife-wielding 16-year-old dead.

Stuart Winer and AFP contributed to this report.