{"id":891626,"date":"2026-06-25T11:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/891626\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T11:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:10:21","slug":"idf-soldier-found-handcuffed-in-tarqumiyah-in-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/891626\/","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":3,"featured_media":891627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[4219,33600,4784,99,49405,50,17262],"class_list":["post-891626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-crime","tag-hebron","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-judea-and-samaria","tag-news","tag-west-bank"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116810444310181683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891626","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=891626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}