Jerusalem Lorry Attacker said to be a "IS Supporter'

Prime minister of Isreal Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that all signs reveal that the man who killed four soldiers in Jerusalem was a supporter of the Islamic state.

Even though his claims are not solidly backed by evidences, the prime minister however sounded convincing from the evidence gathered.

The police had earlier said that the event took the life of three women and a man was killed in the attack and 17 others were wounded. The attacker, identified as 28-year-old Fadi Qunbar, came from the Palestinian district of Jabel Mukaber in east Jerusalem, near to the attack site.

CCTV footage showed the truck ploughing at high speed into the soldiers, before reversing over the victims.

"He drove backward to crush more people," eyewitness Leah Schreiber told reporters. "That was really clear."

Other soldiers shot the driver dead. Nine people were arrested in a raid on his neighbourhood, including five members of his family.

Mr Netanyahu visited the site of the attack on Sunday afternoon and said: "We know that there has been a series of terror attacks.

"There definitely could be a connection between them - from France to Berlin, and now Jerusalem."

Attackers in Nice and Berlin last year used the same method of driving a lorry through a crowd.

National police Chief Roni Alseich said it was possible the driver had been motivated by last month's lorry attack in Berlin.

He said: "It is difficult to get into the head of every individual to determine what prompted him, but there is no doubt that these things do have an effect."