Sharjah 24 – AFP: Seven people were wounded, two of them critically, when a shooter opened fire on a bus in Jerusalem's Old City early Sunday, Israeli police and medics said.

Police have launched a search for the shooter, who fled after the pre-dawn attack.

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said in a statement that the authorities were working to "restore calm" in the city.

The shooting comes about a week after a three-day conflict between Israel and Islamic Jihad militants in the densely populated Palestinian enclave of Gaza.

At least 49 Palestinians, including Islamic Jihad fighters and also children, died in the violence, which ended last Sunday after Egypt negotiated a truce.