Arab driver admits to deliberate car attack

An Israeli-Arab man who rammed his car into Jewish pedestrians in Jerusalem last week, killing one and seriously injuring another,  confesses that the incident was a deliberate attack, the Shin Bet security service says.

Khaled Koutineh’s lawyer and family initially maintained that the incident was an accidental crash and not a deliberate attack.

However, the Shin Bet adds that, during questioning, Koutineh confessed that he carried out the attack after making a spur-of-the-moment decision to target Israeli Jews with his car.

He told Shin Bet interrogators that he suffers from mental health problems and had feigned insanity during a psychological assessment after his arrest. The Israel Police say that the psychological assessment found Koutineh fit to stand trial.

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— Stuart Winer