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flag An Israeli soldier was arrested for faking a Palestinian detainee’s kidnapping to scam his family, amid rising West Bank tensions.

flag An Israeli soldier was arrested on January 25, 2026, after allegedly faking the kidnapping of a Palestinian detainee to extort money from his family. flag The soldier, a military police guard, sent photos of the man—detained for entering Israel illegally—from a facility near Gush Etzion, falsely claiming he had been abducted. flag The man remained in Israeli custody, and the incident prompted a formal investigation by the IDF’s Internal Investigations Unit. flag The case occurs amid heightened violence in the West Bank, including Israeli military operations, settler attacks, and the killing of a 34-year-old Palestinian man in a separate incident involving police gunfire.

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