Three residents of of Barta'a, in the Palestinian Authority-assigned area of Samaria, were arrested, Monday, on suspicion of stealing about 400,000 shekels worth of property from an aluminum factory in the northern Israeli community of 'Ein Ha'emek. The property consisted of raw material and machinery.
The arrests followed a raid by police, Border Guards and the Israel Defense Forces on a facility in the eastern part of the community, which straddles the 1949 Armistice Line.