Israeli settler confesses to a string of attacks

A West Bank settler has confessed to a string of fatal shootings and bombing attacks in occupied Palestine.

Yaakov Teitel, a 37-year-old immigrant from the US, was arrested by Israeli police in Jerusalem Al-Quds on October 7 and charged with a number of killings and murder plots, including the slaying of two Palestinians.

He began traveling to Israel and the West Bank in the 1990s before immigrating to Israel in 2000.

He confessed to killing two Palestinians - a shepherd in Hebron (al-Khalil) and a taxi driver in East Jerusalem Al-Quds - both in 1997, the Maan news agency reported on Sunday, quoting the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.

Teitel also confessed that he carried out a series of bomb attacks, including one that seriously wounded a teenager in the illegal settlement of Ariel and another that lightly wounded liberal Hebrew University historian Zeev Sternhell, the Jerusalem Post reported.

He is also held responsible for an attack on a youth club in Tel Aviv in August in which two people were killed.

Police discovered rifles, handguns, and explosive materials in his home, but they did not find the gun that killed the Palestinians.