Since the 1960s, the Jordanian-Israeli border has been the scene of numerous infiltration operations and the implementation of commando operations inside the occupied territories. The dynamics of these operations have slowed down over time, then resumed during the 1990s, before the years following the signing of Wadi Araba. The agreement between Jordan and Israel in 1994 witnessed a calm that was only disturbed by the operation of soldier Ahmed Al-Daqamseh.
Since the flooding of the Battle of Al-Aqsa, the border has been in a state of tension and several infiltration operations, the most recent being the King Hussein Bridge operation.
Ex-soldier and gun
On September 8, Maher Al-Jazi, the Jordanian truck driver, was transporting goods towards the King Hussein Bridge between Jordan, the West Bank and Israel. He pulled out a hidden weapon and opened fire on Israeli security forces. This resulted in the death of three of them after being shot directly in the head, before Israeli security shot him, martyring him.
Process not completed
On March 22, Israel announced that it had arrested two armed men near the Bezalel settlement, built on the lands of the Palestinian village of Fasayil, after they crossed the Kingdom’s borders into the occupied Palestinian territories. They were caught in possession of a Kalashnikov machine gun and two gunmen. magazines of ammunition, and they confessed during the investigation that they had come to carry out an operation against the Israelis in Jaffa, in response to the Israeli aggression on Gaza.
Shots and no casualties
On April 5, the Israeli occupation army announced that a gunman had opened fire on a military jeep after it crossed the border into Jordan. Army Radio reported that the gunman was able to retreat into Jordanian territory.
From Gaza to Eilat
On January 29, 2007, Muhammad Faisal Al-Siksek, a resident of the Gaza Strip, managed to infiltrate the occupied territories via Jordan.
He arrived in the city of Eilat and took a taxi to the scene of the attack, but the driver became suspicious and informed the police, who sent a patrol to investigate the matter.
By this time, Al-Siksek had arrived at a bakery in the Simchun neighborhood, where he planned to carry out the attack. When he noticed the approaching police, he decided to detonate the bomb inside the bakery instead of continuing to his final destination. The explosion resulted in the deaths of 3 Israelis.
The Rebel Soldier
On 13 March 1997, while he was performing his military service in the Al-Baqoura area, soldier Ahmed Al-Daqamseh opened fire on settlers in the area, killing seven of them and wounding others. Al-Daqamseh testified at his trial that these settler women mocked him, made fun of him and made jokes at him while he was praying.
The operation took place 3 years after the peace agreement between Jordan and Israel, known as the Wadi Araba Agreement, and was carried out in a location that was intended, in accordance with this agreement and the spirit and atmosphere of the new “peace” with the Israeli occupation, to be a tourist forum for residents of both banks (Baqoura) and to represent a safe outlet for Israeli tourists. The operation prompted King Hussein bin Talal at the time to visit Israel to formally apologize to his government and offer his condolences to the girls’ families.
revenge
In April 1997, Sona Al-Rai managed to smuggle a gun, which she strapped to her leg, as she crossed the Jordanian border from the King Hussein Bridge connecting Jordan to the occupied territories. She opened fire on the occupation soldiers, wounding several of them, before she was arrested.
Al-Rai carried out this operation in retaliation for his brother, who was killed by the occupation on April 13, 1988, after refusing to acknowledge the various operations and activities attributed to him despite the investigation methods used against him and despite the detention of his sister Sona for more than a month to put pressure on him.
The resistant student
On February 8, 1991, Marwan Arendas, a student at the Faculty of Sharia at the University of Jordan, and his two companions, Khalil Zaytoun and Raed Al-Salhi, carried out a qualitative operation. They infiltrated the occupied territories from the direction of Wadi. Araba ambushed a bus carrying occupation soldiers, opened fire on it and clashed with them for 5 hours. The operation left one dead and one injured, before the guerrillas were martyred.
Arendas was a friend of Aladdin Hijazi, who had infiltrated the occupied territories a year earlier.
Good catch
At the age of 17, Sultan Al-Ajlouni crossed the Jordanian border into the Palestinian territories across the Jordan River on November 13, 1990. Armed with a pistol, he attacked an Israeli occupation military site and killed an Israeli police major, but a malfunction in the pistol prevented the Sultan from carrying out further attacks. It is noteworthy that the deceased major is the brother of the former commander of the Jerusalem Brigade of the Israeli police.
Revenge for Al-Aqsa
November 8, 1990 In response to the Al-Aqsa massacre a month earlier, Salem Abu Ghalioun, Khaled Abu Ghalioun, Amin Al-Sanea, Ibrahim Ghoneim and Nayef Kaabneh infiltrated from the Jordanian border into the occupied territories and clashed with an Israeli patrol 3 kilometers east of the town of Al-Auja, near Jericho.
The clashes continued for 4 hours, during which a number of occupation soldiers were killed and injured, including an officer, while Nayef Al-Kaabneh, a member of the group, was martyred and the rest of its members were captured after intense resistance and a pursuit operation, during which Khaled continued to resist with bladed weapons for about two hours until a helicopter arrived and threw a net at him, injuring his foot. They shot him with an anesthetic bullet, after which he only woke up. in the hospital.
A Quran and a knife
At dawn on December 22, 1990, high school student Alaa al-Din Hijazi crossed the Jordan River and infiltrated into Israel to carry out an operation against the occupying soldiers, armed with a knife and carrying his Quran. shot him and he died a martyr before any of them were injured. He had written in his will, addressing the Arabs and Muslims: “Why are you afraid to enter Palestine and liberate it?”