Tuesday, 13 January 2009
Shots were fired at a Border Police patrol along the Israel-Jordan border on Tuesday morning.
The army said there were no casualties in the incident, which took place near the Yitzhak Rabin Border Terminal, near Eilat.
Border Police forces returned fire.
Further details remained unclear, but tensions are high in the region due to the IDF operation in Gaza.
Israel and Jordan signed a peace agreement in 1994 and the border is usually quiet.
There was a similar shooting incident Sunday along the Israel-Syria border, when gunshots were fired at an IDF vehicle.
The IDF said the vehicle was carrying civilians and soldiers who were conducting engineering work along the border. No one was hurt, though the vehicle sustained some damage and military sources said it was likely a lone Syrian gunman who decided to open fire at the force to protest against IDF operations in the Gaza Strip.
Last Thursday, two people in a retirement home were lightly wounded when four Katyusha rockets slammed into the northern city of Nahariya.
