Since the 1960s, the Jordanian-Israeli border has witnessed many infiltration operations and the implementation of fedayeen operations inside the occupied territories. The momentum of these operations declined over time, then returned during the 1990s, before the years following the signing of the Wadi Araba Agreement between Jordan and Israel in 1994 witnessed calm, which was only disturbed by the operation of the soldier Ahmed Al-Daqamseh.
Since the Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa, the borders have witnessed a state of tension and several infiltration operations, the last of which was the King Hussein Bridge operation.
ex soldier and gun
On September 8, Maher Al-Jazi, a Jordanian truck driver, was carrying goods to the King Hussein Bridge between Jordan, the West Bank and Israel. He pulled out a gun he had hidden and opened fire on Israeli security personnel. He killed three of them after hitting them directly in the head, before Israeli security forces shot him dead.
Process not completed
On March 22, Israel announced that it had arrested two militants near the settlement of Petsael, built on the lands of the Palestinian village of Fasayil, after they crossed the borders of the Kingdom towards the occupied Palestinian territories. They were caught carrying a Kalashnikov rifle and two magazines for ammunition, and they confessed during the investigation that they had come to carry out an operation against Israelis in Jaffa, in response to the Israeli aggression on Gaza.
Shooting, no injuries
On April 5, the Israeli occupation army announced that a gunman opened fire on a military jeep after it crossed the border with Jordan. The army radio reported that the gunman was able to withdraw to Jordanian territory.
From Gaza to Eilat
On January 29, 2007, Mohammed Faisal Al-Saksik, a resident of the Gaza Strip, managed to infiltrate into the occupied territories via Jordan.
He arrived in the city of Eilat, took a taxi, and headed to the place where the bombing was to take place, but the driver became suspicious of him and informed the police, who sent a patrol to investigate the matter.
At that time, Al-Saksik had reached a bakery in the Simshon neighborhood, where he planned to carry out the bombing. When he noticed the police approaching, he decided to detonate the bomb inside the bakery instead of continuing to his final destination. The bombing resulted in the deaths of 3 Israelis.
The rebel soldier
On March 13, 1997, while performing his military service in the Baqoura area, soldier Ahmad Daqamseh opened fire on female settlers in the area, killing 7 of them and wounding others. Daqamseh said during his trial that these settlers mocked him, laughed and made jokes about him while he was praying.
The operation came three years after the peace agreement between Jordan and Israel, known as the Wadi Araba Agreement, and was carried out in a place that, according to that agreement and the spirit and atmosphere of the new “peace” with the Israeli occupation, was intended to be a tourist meeting place for the residents of both banks (Baqoura), and to represent a safe haven for Israeli tourists. The operation prompted King Hussein bin Talal at the time to travel to Israel and offer an official apology to its government, and to offer his condolences to the families and relatives of the girls.
revenge
In April 1997, Sona Al-Ra’i managed to smuggle a gun that she tied to her leg while crossing the Jordanian border via the King Hussein Bridge linking Jordan and the occupied territories. She opened fire on occupation soldiers, wounding a number of them, before being arrested.
Al-Ra’i carried out this operation in revenge for her brother, who was killed by the occupation on April 13, 1988, after he refused to confess to the various operations and activities attributed to him despite the interrogation methods that were used on him and despite the arrest of his sister, Suna, for more than a month to pressure him.
The resistant student
On February 8, 1991, Marwan Arandas, a student at the Faculty of Sharia at the University of Jordan, and his two companions, Khalil Zeitoun and Raed Al-Salihi, carried out a special 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 led to the killing and wounding of dozens of occupation soldiers, before the martyrdom of the fedayeen.
Arandas was a friend of Alaa El-Din Hegazy, 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 via the Jordan River on November 13, 1990. Armed with a pistol, he attacked an Israeli military site and killed an Israeli police major, but a malfunction in the pistol prevented Sultan from carrying out further attacks. It is noteworthy that the killed major is the brother of the former commander of the Jerusalem Brigade in the Israeli police.
In revenge for Al-Aqsa
November 8, 1990: In response to the Al-Aqsa massacre that had occurred a month earlier, Salem Abu Ghalyoun, Khaled Abu Ghalyoun, Amin Al-Sanea, Ibrahim Ghneim, 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 clash continued for 4 hours, during which a number of occupation soldiers were killed and wounded, including an officer. Nayef Al-Kaabneh was martyred from the group, and the rest of its members were captured after fierce resistance and a pursuit operation. Khaled continued to resist with knives for about two hours until a helicopter came and dropped a net on him, hit him in the foot, and fired a sedative shot at him, after which he did not wake up until he was in the hospital.
Quran and knife
At dawn on December 22, 1990, high school student Alaa El-Din Hijazi crossed the Jordan River into Israel to carry out an operation against the occupation soldiers, armed with a knife and carrying his copy of the Quran. The occupation soldiers shot him and he fell as a martyr before any of them were injured. He had written in his will, addressing the Arabs and Muslims, “Why are you afraid of entering Palestine and liberating it?”