Israeli forces erected checkpoints and carried out searches across wide swathes of the southern West Bank Thursday amid reports that an Israeli had been captured by unknown assailants.
The reports said that two Israeli settlers had stopped on the side of the road south of the village of Beit Einun north of Hebron to repair a flat tire.
Israeli Channel 2 said that one of the settlers entered the village to get a wrench but never returned.
But police sources sources told Channel 2 that the car had no flat tire, raising suspicions as to why the two had stopped where they did.
According the channel, the two men are both 22-year-old residents of the southern Israeli city of Beersheba who traveled to Hebron to pray at the Cave of the Patriarchs.
They were on their way home when their vehicle allegedly broke down, the report said. more
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