The Israeli Army of Occupation announced that “its forces foiled yet another attempt to smuggle firearms out of Jordan this morning.”
He explained that “the soldiers who were monitoring the surveillance cameras found a suspicious person near the border and sent troops and police officers to the scene, the man was arrested, and two pistols were confiscated from him.” The incident comes at a time when the Israeli army and Israeli police revealed they foiled an arms smuggling operation on the Jordanian border late last week.
And on his Twitter account, Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraei said: “A marked increase in drug and arms smuggling operations at the Jordanian and Egyptian borders, as security forces prevented the smuggling of more than 300 illegal weapons and about 2,150 kg of drugs at the border.” Jordan and Egypt during the current year to the present. Adrej added: “The actions of the security forces were manifested in the suppression of attempts to smuggle goods at the borders, in recording an increase in the number and value of smuggling stopped, including about 35 drug smuggling operations worth the equivalent of 125 million shekels. And about 18 attempts to smuggle weapons across the Jordanian border About 300 weapons were seized.
And added: “The Edom Division (80), located on the borders with Egypt and Jordan, has adopted the concept of “protection by color” in recent months, which aims to strengthen the protection of vital interests and has led to an increase in attempts to curb the smuggling of drugs and weapons in areas under the control of the detachment. Adrai quoted Colonel Eido Saad, commander of the Parane Brigade, as saying: “We are working every night to thwart attempts to smuggle drugs and weapons across the border and thus shut down the economic engine of crime in the Negev and prevent the entry of dangerous drugs and illegal weapons into the civilian sphere. .. We will continue to work sharply and clearly to ensure the safety of the inhabitants of the south.
