Police in Israel say a Jewish settler suspected of beating an elderly Palestinian farmer to death has turned himself in.

A police spokeswoman said the twenty-eight-year-old suspect Gur Hamel was accompanied to a police station by a member of a right-wing party Moledet.

The farmer's body was found near a Jewish settlement in the north of the West Bank a week ago; at the time an anonymous telephone caller told the police that he had killed him to avenge a Jewish power plant worker shot dead in Hebron earlier that day.