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Israeli border police shot dead two Palestinians in annexed east Jerusalem after they threw fireworks and rocks at fellow officers, the force said on Wednesday.
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The deaths came late on Tuesday in the Silwan neighbourhood as officers were operating in the area, the border police said in a statement.
One officer was hit by fireworks, the force said.
“In response to the threat to their lives, the border police officers fired at the two assailants,” who were later confirmed dead, the statement said.
Israel occupied east Jerusalem in the Six-Day War of 1967 and later annexed it in a move never recognised by the international community.
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Some 230,000 Israelis now live in the territory, alongside at least 360,000 Palestinians who want to make the city’s eastern sector the capital of their future state.
Tuesday’s clash was the first in east Jerusalem since Hamas gunmen carried out a deadly rampage through southern Israel after mounting a shock cross-border assault from Gaza on Saturday.
At least 1,200 people have now been confirmed dead in Israel in the deadliest attack in the country’s 75-year history.
In Gaza, more than 900 people have been killed as Israel has pounded the densely populated territory with retaliatory air strikes and artillery bombardments.
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