A Palestinian terrorist who opened fire at a group of police officers in Jerusalem's Old City was shot and killed, Israeli police said Monday night.

According to police, the suspected terrorist approached a police post near the Lion's Gate entrance to the Old City and fired with a rudimentary submachine gun known as a "Carlo."

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Officers chased the man on foot "while firing at him and [he] was neutralized," the police said in a statement.

The alleged terrorist later died of his wounds. There was no immediate comment from Palestinian officials.

A Border Police officer was injured when he fell during the chase. He was taken to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital for treatment.

Magen David Adom said in a statement that "a 36-year-old man who was injured while running is being treated by MDA medics and paramedics and is being evacuated to Shaare Zedek Hospital, in light condition, with injuries to his back and limbs."

MDA paramedic Ilan Gur Ari said, "When we arrived at the scene, we saw a 36-year-old man fully conscious, we were told that during a run he fell and was injured. In addition, we also treated the neutralized terrorist."

In recent years, lone Palestinian attackers, usually not connected to organized terrorist groups, have been accused in a string of alleged stabbings, shootings and car rammings against Israeli security forces or Jewish civilians in Judea and Samaria.

Earlier on Monday, authorities said a 52-year-old woman, who was later identified as Esther Horgan from Tel Menashe, was found killed in northern Samaria after going for a walk in a forest near her home.

Officials said they suspected the killing was carried out by a Palestinian terrorist, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to bring the killer to justice.

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A joint statement signed by 18 groups aims to step up the pressure on Jordan, a key American ally, to send Ahlam al-Tamimi to the US for trial.

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The statement urges the US to "bring all pressure to bear," including possible cuts in American financial aid, in order to press Jordan into honoring an extradition agreement.

Monday's statement was signed by a mix of right-wing and centrist groups. Among them are several major mainstream Jewish groups, including the Jewish Federations of North America, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and B'nai B'rith, as well as the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC.

Al-Tamimi is wanted by the US on a charge of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction against American nationals.

Jordan has rebuffed previous efforts to extradite her, citing double jeopardy considerations, but the Trump administration said recently it would consider withholding assistance as leverage. Jordanian officials have not commented publicly about the matter.

Al-Tamimi was arrested in Judea and Samaria by Israel weeks after the bombing and sentenced to 16 life prison terms but was released in a 2011 Israel-Hamas prisoner swap and moved to Jordan. She has made frequent media appearances, expressing no remorse for the attack and saying she was pleased with the high death toll.

Among the victims of the attack was Malka Roth, a 15-year-old Israeli American girl whose father, Arnold Roth, has led a campaign seeking al-Tamimi's extradition.

"It's time that Jordan's disregard for its legal, diplomatic and moral obligations to hand al-Tamimi over to US justice was brought to an end," Roth said.

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