The Israeli occupation army said that one of its soldiers was wounded while thwarting an operation to smuggle weapons and ammunition from Jordan in the Wadi Araba area, south of the Dead Sea.
According to the director of Al Jazeera's office, Walid Al-Omari, one of the suspects - according to the army's version - was wounded, while others were arrested and pieces of weapons and ammunition were seized.
The army said that it discovered the smuggling attempt when it noticed a person advancing from inside Jordanian territory towards the border in the Wadi Araba area;
Where he was shot, and he is investigating to find out the circumstances of the injury of one of his soldiers.
The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the soldier was slightly wounded while thwarting the smuggling operation in the border area.