Photo Credit: Yaniv Nadav/Flash90
The old border fence between Israel and Jordan, June 17, 2020.

The Israel Defense Forces and local security units apprehended six infiltrators who crossed the border from Jordan on Friday night, the Jordan Valley Regional Council said on Saturday.

Security personnel responding to a breach at the border near the Yarmouk River, searched the area and located the individuals, who were apparently seeking employment.

Advertisement




Israel’s frontier with Jordan extends 192 miles, making it the Jewish state’s longest border. Israel signed a peace treaty with Amman in 1994, but the kingdom has a majority “Palestinian” population and its government has taken an increasingly hostile tone since the start of the current Israel-Hamas war.

There has been a dramatic increase in arm-smuggling from Jordan into Judea and Samaria, something the IDF has attributed to Iran. Over the past two years, security forces have seized more than 1,000 weapons at the Jordanian border.

There is mounting concern in the security establishment after the Hamas-led massacre of Oct. 7 that pro-Iranian elements could attempt to penetrate Israel’s eastern border to commit a similar mass attack. Israel is working to prevent such a scenario from occurring, including by reinforcing troops at the border.


Share this article on WhatsApp:
Advertisement

SHARE
Previous articleMossad: Hamas ‘Striving to Ignite the Region During Ramadan’
Next article13 Arab-Israelis Planning Terror Attacks for Hamas Arrested
www.JNS.org is an independent, non-profit business resource and wire service covering Jewish news and Israel news for Jewish media throughout the English-speaking world.