A large quantity of weapons and ammunition were stolen Saturday from an Israeli military base in the Golan Heights, the part of Syria occupied by Israel since 1967.
«Military ammunition was stolen from a military base in northern Israel. The Military Police Investigation Unit is investigating what happened and the result will be transferred to the Military Prosecutor’s Office,» a military spokesman was quoted as saying by ‘The Jerusalem Post’.
Sources quoted by the Post warned that the stolen ammunition and weapons could be used by Palestinian «terrorists» in the West Bank.
The Israeli Army has tightened security around the base and opened an internal Military Police investigation. It has also passed the information to the Israeli secret services for the interior and the occupied territories, the Shin Bet.
A similar incident occurred last month, when 30,000 bullets were stolen from the arsenal of the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel. An inventory of the material was ordered and security was tightened at all bases, including the one in the Golan Heights.
The Golan Heights is a territory that Israel seized from Syria during the Six Day War (1967) and the Yom Kippur War (1973) and effectively annexed in 1981, an action not recognized by the international community.
