**Israeli police have launched a major security operation following a report that a soldier has been kidnapped.**Dozens of roadblocks were set up after a female soldier reported seeing another soldier being bundled into car near Ben Gurion airport.
A previously unknown Palestinian group calling itself Al-Quds Army later said it had taken a soldier.
However, the Israeli military insisted that none of its soldiers has so far been listed as missing.
Army officials said they were carrying out a detailed roll-call.
Israel already has one soldier being held captive, Sgt Gilad Shalit, who was captured by Hamas-linked militants three years ago.
‘Testimony checked’
“Following a testimony of a woman soldier who said that (she saw) two people pushing a soldier into a car, Israeli police and the Israeli army acted according to procedures,” said police spokesman Alex Kagalsky.
“The reliability of the testimony is also being checked.”
Ben Gurion Airport is near the city of Tel Aviv in central Israel.
Police quickly set up roadblocks on major routes, causing severe traffic jams in some areas.
The Palestinian news agency Ma’an later reported a statement from the Al-Quds groups saying: “A group of our resistance fighters captured an Israeli soldier near Ben Gurion airport and withdrew along with the soldier peacefully - later we will give details about the captured soldier.”
In June, Israel marked three years since Sgt Shalit, then aged 19, was seized by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid launched from Gaza.
Indirect talks between Israel and Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, have so far failed to win his release.