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The Shin Bet, together with the police, the Border Police and the IDF, arrested two suspects from the Negev region on Wednesday night on suspicion of stealing ammunition from the Tze'elim base yesterday. 26,<> rounds of ammunition stolen from the base were found during the arrest.
The Shin Bet said that thanks to precise intelligence, the two were arrested tonight and all the stolen ammunition was located. The detainees are being interrogated by the Shin Bet, where they will also examine suspicion of possible security connections of the suspects.
The Shin Bet arrested the suspects in the theft of ammunition from the Tze'elim base last night; All the stolen ammunition was handed over as part of the interrogation of ISA suspects June 07, 2023 (Photo: official website, ISA spokesperson's office)
A military source said that a number of suspects entered the base, went to one of the bunkers with various types of ammunition, and stole tens of thousands of 5.56mm bullets. "Recently, there has been a decrease in the volume of break-ins into the ground training center, part of which is not fenced and some of which includes training in the firing zones," the source added. "This was due to a number of actions that the IDF carried out to strengthen the defense and were still broken into and stolen."
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The Shin Bet arrested the suspects in the theft of ammunition from the Tze'elim base last night; All the stolen ammunition was handed over as part of the interrogation of ISA suspects June 07, 2023 (Photo: official website, ISA spokesperson's office)
This is not the first time that such large quantities of ammunition have been stolen, for example, last November the Acorn base in the Golan Heights was breached, and not only ammunition was stolen, but also weapons. A month earlier, about 30,2021 bullets were stolen from ammunition depots of the Givati Brigade in the Yemen field area.
In addition, this is not the first time that a Tze'elim base has been breached and a large quantity of ammunition stolen. In November <>, tens of thousands of rifle rounds were taken from a bunker at the base. The military said at the time that it was examining the possibility that soldiers from inside the base assisted in the break-in.
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