{"id":1008436,"date":"2026-08-18T10:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1008436\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T10:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:39:14","slug":"idf-soldiers-number-palestinian-suspects-during-west-bank-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1008436\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF soldiers number Palestinian suspects during West Bank operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">IDF soldiers wrote numbers on the bodies of Palestinian suspects during a Monday operation in the West Bank village of Kabatiya near Jenin, Army Radio reported on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In response, the IDF told Army Radio that &#8220;security forces marked suspects who were being interrogated as part of the operation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Following this, the commanders explained, &#8220;the seriousness of the act was explained to the soldiers, and lessons were drawn from the matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The two terrorists are suspected of planning and promoting terrorist plots to harm the citizens of the State of Israel and the IDF, the military said.<\/p>\n<p>The IDF has come under heavy scrutiny for its actions in the Palestinian village of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-905816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kusra<\/a> near Nablus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also on Monday, Defense Minister\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-905517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israel Katz<\/a> announced that the military will present a plan for the transfer within the next two weeks, after initially announcing its intention to transfer the authority on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cWe will not allow violence or unauthorized parties to take the law into their own hands,\u201d Katz said.<\/p>\n<p>In his response, National Security Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-905767\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Itamar Ben-Gvir<\/a> hailed Katz&#8217;s decision, noting it to be a &#8220;significant step toward [implementing] Israeli sovereignty in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Ben-Gvir said he had requested that all responsibility for the area be transferred from the IDF to the Israel Police, including handing over responsibility for the Border Police&#8217;s Judea and Samaria Division from the military to the police, &#8220;in accordance with the coalition agreement that has so far been violated.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IDF soldiers wrote numbers on the bodies of Palestinian suspects during a Monday operation in the West Bank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1008437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[21398,4784,99,167595,399915,50,22391,17262],"class_list":["post-1008436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-counterterrorism","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-jenin","tag-kusra","tag-news","tag-palestinian","tag-west-bank"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117116087073759154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1008437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}