The Palestinian who carried out Monday’s grenade attack in Beersheba admitted that he was also responsible for the August stabbing murder of Rabbi Shlomo Ra’anan in the Tel Rumeida section of Hebron. A 29-year-old resident of Hebron and father of five, Salem Rajab Sarsour also admitted to carrying out a grenade attack on Israeli troops patrolling the West Bank town on Yom Kippur. Israeli Public Security Minister Avigdor Kahalani said Sarsour was a member of Hamas, adding that he had not carried out the Beersheba attack by himself. Twenty- seven of the 66 people wounded in the attack are still in the hospital.
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