Police arrested Walid Farroukh, a 49-year-old Palestinian Authority resident who works for Palestinian intelligence, on suspicion of kidnapping an active-duty soldier and taking him to Palestinian Authority territory on criminal grounds. According to the suspicion, Farroukh and another individual kidnapped the soldier in Be'er Sheva, handcuffed him and blindfolded him, abducted him to the territories and threatened him. Later, they left him in an open area bound and injured and attacked him. The soldier managed to free himself and was brought to a Palestinian police station, from where he returned to Israel. The Be'er Sheva Magistrate's Court extended Farroukh's detention by four days.