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Hussam Dwayat was at work on a building site when he drove his front-loader vehicle into the street and started mowing down cars and ramming buses.
He killed three people and wounded dozens more before security personnel climbed on the vehicle and killed him.
The shooting was filmed by BBC staff whose office overlooked the scene.
Three Palestinian militant groups claimed responsibility for the attack - which would be the first by their supporters in Jerusalem since a shooting in March at a religious school.
However, correspondents said Dwayat's home in east Jerusalem showed no sign of the crowds and banners that normally accompany the funerals of Palestinian militants.
Police said he had a criminal background and had no known ties to militant groups but officers were still checking whether he had "received instructions" from others.
Israeli military vehicles went to the house in Sur Bahir on Wednesday and investigators interviewed relatives, taking pictures and gathering evidence.
Baby thrown clear
Palestinian civil rights activist Hassib Nashashibi said Dwayat had received a heavy fine and demolition order from the Israeli authorities for carrying out illegal building work, which may have provided a motivation.
Other reports say the the father-of-two - a devout Muslim married to a Palestinian woman - may have been seeking revenge for experiences in the past including a failed love affair with an Jewish Israeli woman and a spell in prison.
"Everyone is in shock," said a family friend.
Medics said he killed two women and a man and injured more than 45 people as he drove about 200m along the busy Jaffa Road, one of west Jerusalem's main thoroughfares.
The baby of one of the dead women survived and was found under the seat of an overturned bus.
Another woman threw her baby out of her car window when she saw the 20-tonne construction vehicle bearing down on her. She was injured but her baby was unharmed.
The attack has prompted calls from hardline Israelis to take steps against Palestinians in Jerusalem- including cracking down on Arab areas and refusing to employ them as labourers, as well as expelling attackers' families and demolishing their homes.
Correspondents say it has put extra strain on the uneasy coexistence between the city's Jews and their Arab neighbours, many of whom work in the construction industry.
The Palestinian Authority condemned the attack, but the Hamas group, which controls the Gaza Strip said it was a "natural reaction to the aggression and crimes" of the Israeli occupation.
"Those who refuse to condemn this act of terror are exposing themselves for what they really are - namely the enemies of fundamental human values," said Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev.
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(BBC)
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