Suspected truck-ramming attack kills at least four Israeli soldiers

The truck veered into soldiers waiting near the illegal settlement of East Talpiyyot, also known as Armon Hanatziv, according to Israeli news site Ynet.

The attack was deliberately targeting Israeli forces, Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri told Ynet.

Police said the dead, three women and one man, were all in their twenties.

An Israeli bus driver who witnessed the attack told Israeli radio that the truck ploughed into a group of soldiers, and that they fired on the driver, who reversed direction and ran over them again.

"They shot him, until they neutralised him," said the bus driver, who gave his name only as Moshe.

Israeli TV stations said the driver was killed, showing footage of showed bullet holes in the truck's windscreen.

Images circulated on social media networks of the alleged truck with bodies strewn across a patch of grass.

Israeli police were looking into the identity of the driver, while Israeli media reported the driver was a Palestinian but did not give his name.

The area of the incident, just west of the Palestinian neighbourhood of Jabal al-Mukabbir, has been sealed off.