Funeral held for Palestinian

A funeral has been held for the Palestinian man who rammed his car into a crowd, killing two pedestrians with his car, before he was shot dead.

Mourners carry the body of Abdelrahman Shaludi

A funeral has been held for the Palestinian man who rammed his car into Jerusalem pedestrians. (AAP)

Palestinians have laid to rest a man who killed two people, including a baby, when he rammed his car into Jerusalem pedestrians, sparking days of violence.

Video footage from the funeral showed a group of youths carrying Abdelrahman Shaludi's casket to the cemetery near Jerusalem's Old City, chanting "God loves him because he is a shahid", or martyr.

The 21-year-old Palestinian was shot dead by police in what they called a "terror attack" after Wednesday's car attack.

A three-month-old girl was killed on the spot and on Sunday an Ecuadorian woman died of her injuries, said Jerusalem's Hadassah hospital.

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa condemned the attack that killed Karen Mosquera, saying on Twitter "We will reject violence from wherever it comes".

The Ecuadorian foreign ministry said the 22-year-old had been completing the process of converting to Judaism in Israel.

Police had initially refused to return Shaludi's body to his family after a post mortem, saying the family had rejected an Israeli court's conditions for the funeral, which determined could be attended by only 20 people.

Jawad Siyyam, an activist from Silwan, where the Shaludis reside, alleged Israel had threatened the family they would bury him on their own if they did not accept the conditions.

His family rejected those terms, but eventually the two sides agreed 70 people could attend, according to Siyyam.

Earlier on Sunday the family held what it called a "symbolic funeral" in honour of the "martyr" Shaludi in Silwan, a sensitive Palestinian sector close to Jerusalem's Old City.

Hundreds of Palestinians attended the ceremony, bearing an empty casket and reciting prayers, before trying to ascend to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, the epicentre of recent tensions.

Heavily armed police used tear gas to repel hundreds at the "symbolic funeral", arresting one person in Silwan. Elsewhere in east Jerusalem police arrested two youths in Issawiya for stone-throwing.

Shaludi was shot dead by police as he fled on foot from what Israeli authorities branded a "terror attack" that killed Haya Zissel Braun, the Israeli baby who was also a US national.


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