The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan announced in a statement on Friday that the perpetrators of the “Dead Sea Operation” belonged to its ranks and called for “celebrating them,” according to what Al-Hurra’s correspondent reported.
The group considered the operation a “response” to what it described as “the Israeli massacres against women and children in Gaza.”
The Israeli army announced on Friday that its forces killed “two attackers who crossed from Jordan into Israeli territory” south of the Dead Sea and opened fire on the soldiers.
The army said in a statement, “Two terrorists were killed after they crossed the border from Jordan into Israeli territory south of the Dead Sea and opened fire on the soldiers.”
The Israeli army also announced that two soldiers, one of whom was a reserve, were slightly injured in an exchange of fire with the attackers, while the forces continued search operations in the area.
Israeli media reported that the gunmen were wearing military clothing.
On the other hand, an official military source in the General Command of the Jordanian Armed Forces stated that there is no truth to what is being circulated through the Hebrew media that Jordanian soldiers crossed the western borders of Jordan.
The source explained that the Jordanian Armed Forces are following developments, stressing the necessity of receiving information from their official sources and not circulating rumors and misleading news.
A previous army statement stated that “forces were deployed at the location after the attackers crossed into Israel,” so the two attackers opened fire in their direction, and “were neutralized.”
The army most often uses the word “neutralized” to say that the attackers have been killed, or sometimes if they have been arrested or if they have been injured, meaning that they are no longer capable of causing harm.
The incident comes about a month after three Israeli guards were killed at the Allenby Crossing/King Hussein Bridge between the West Bank and Jordan by a Jordanian attacker who arrived from the Kingdom, and was shot dead by the Israeli army.
The Jordanian Ministry of Interior said in a statement at the time, “Initial investigations into the shooting incident on the other side of the King Hussein Bridge confirmed that the shooter was a Jordanian citizen.”
The attack occurred at the Allenby Bridge, also known as the King Hussein Bridge, a border crossing used mainly by Palestinians to travel to Jordan and from there abroad.
The crossing is managed by security guards from a private company alongside Israeli security forces.
Friday’s incident comes the day after Israel announced the killing of the head of the Hamas political bureau, Yahya Sinwar, in an operation in the Gaza Strip.
About half of Jordan’s population is of Palestinian origin, and popular anger prevails in the country against Israel as a result of the continuing war in the Gaza Strip, according to Agence France-Presse.