The Jordanian Army Did Not Fire on Israelis Near the Border

Misbar's investigation revealed that the false claim was first reported by Israeli journalist Amir Bohbot. At around 10 a.m. on December 15, Bohbot posted a claim on Twitter that a Jordanian soldier had fired two shots at him and his colleagues as they patrolled the border area. He demanded an explanation for why the soldier was given the order to open fire and accused the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) of attempting to cover up the fire incident.

Bohbot's claim was then misrepresented in Israeli and Arab media, with many of them claiming the Jordanian soldier was aiming at Israeli soldiers. Such claims, however, were refuted in a statement issued by the Jordanian army and reported by the Jordan News Agency (Petra). According to Petra, an official military source at the General Command of the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army (JAF) denied social media reports that a Jordanian soldier opened fire on Israelis near the country's northern borders.

On Tuesday, Jordanian border guards stationed in the Jordanian-Syrian Israeli Triangle (Wady Qalid) suspected that smugglers were in the area and fired shots into the air to frighten them away. 

The JAF spokesperson reportedly concluded by urging the public to seek credible information from authorized sources and urging the media to verify news before disseminating it.

It is worth noting that Jordan signed a peace agreement with Israel in 1994, known as "The Wadi Araba Treaty" (Jordanian desert adjacent to Palestine), which stipulated ending the state of hostility between the two parties and implementing the provisions of the United Nations Charter and principles of international law governing state relations.