An improvised pipe bomb was discovered on Friday afternoon at the "Dor Alon" gas station near the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya.

Police arrived at the scene, evacuated the station and shut it down. A sapper carried out a controlled explosion of the bomb.

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