Death of Palestinian bus driver sparks Jerusalem riots

A Palestinian bus driver was found hanged inside his vehicle, an incident Israeli police described as a suicide but which the driver’s family said they believed was an attack.

The incident sparked Palestinian stone-throwing protests and a strike in some large Palestinian suburbs of Jerusalem, pouring more fuel on tensions stoked over the past few weeks by a dispute over Jerusalem’s holiest site.

The bus driver, Youssef al-Ramouni, 32, was found dead at the start of the route he was due to have driven on Sunday, in an area of Jerusalem close to Jewish settlements and Palestinian areas.