{"id":510408,"date":"2026-06-25T12:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510408\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:40:11","slug":"idf-soldier-found-handcuffed-in-tarqumiyah-in-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510408\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF soldier found handcuffed in Tarqumiyah in West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judea and Samaria Police rescued an IDF soldier from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-900409\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Bank<\/a> town of Tarqumiyah on Wednesday night, following a report from Palestinian Authority security forces of a person in military uniform handcuffed in the center of the town.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The soldier, a resident of southern Israel serving in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-900355\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IDF<\/a>, was taken to the Hebron police station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A preliminary investigation found that the soldier was unarmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The incident is believed to be criminal in nature rather than nationalistic or terror-motivated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Military Police Criminal Investigation Division is now investigating the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">It is expected that the case will be transferred to the National Crime Unit &#8211; Lahav 433 for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The incident follows similar reports over recent months of Israelis entering Area A of the West Bank before being rescued.<\/p>\n<p>Avi Ashkenazi and Miriam Sela-Eitam contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judea and Samaria Police rescued an IDF soldier from the West Bank town of Tarqumiyah on Wednesday night,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[737,19153,1031,85,46,112,43,77],"class_list":["post-510408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-crime","tag-hebron","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-judea-and-samaria","tag-news","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}