{"id":564594,"date":"2021-06-15T14:07:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T18:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564594"},"modified":"2021-06-15T14:07:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T18:07:18","slug":"israel-defense-forces-seize-smuggled-weapons-from-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-defense-forces-seize-smuggled-weapons-from-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Defense Forces Seize Smuggled Weapons From Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisrael-defense-forces-seize-smuggled-weapons-from-jordan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564594&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.631578947368\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Troops have halted other weapons shipments in recent months<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rsz_gettyimages-1181292979-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rsz_gettyimages-1181292979.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rsz_gettyimages-1181292979-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rsz_gettyimages-1181292979-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tAn Israeli soldier along the Israel-Jordan border (Menahem Kahana\/AFP via Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 June 15, 2021 2:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"55.786643538595\">\n<p>The Israel Defense Forces\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/weapons-exchange-on-jordan-border-thwarted-by-israeli-security-forces-671035?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_content=Guardian+of+the+Walls+is+over%2C+but+Hamas+still+sets+the+rules&#038;utm_campaign=June+15%2C+2021+Day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">intercepted<\/a> two shipments of smuggled weapons headed across the Israeli border from Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers worked with Israeli border police and other authorities on Monday to halt a shipment as it approached the border. Israeli forces identified and fired at one suspect before he was able to cross into the country. A reserve soldier was wounded in the operation. The cause of his injuries is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Three smugglers attempted on Monday to bring a second weapons shipment, which included 10 Kalashnikov rifles and 5 sniper rifles, from Jordan into Israel. Defense Forces soldiers, in cooperation with Israeli police, seized the smugglers along the border.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear where the weapons originated.<\/p>\n<p>The interceptions occurred during a surge of illicit activity on Israel&#8217;s borders. In recent months, Israel has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/arab-israeli-conflict\/cogat-thwarts-over-1000-attempts-to-smuggle-dual-use-weapons-into-gaza-670539\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flagged<\/a> more than 1,000 packages seized by troops for containing potentially smuggled illicit goods with military use. The packages\u2014the majority of which were headed to Gaza\u2014contained materials that could benefit Hamas&#8217;s operations against Israel.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Troops have halted other weapons shipments in recent months  An Israeli soldier along the Israel-Jordan border (Menahem Kahana\/AFP via Getty Images)  Jack &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2280345,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rsz_gettyimages-1181292979-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Israel Defense Forces Seize Smuggled Weapons From Jordan","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rsz_gettyimages-1181292979-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Israel Defense Forces Seize Smuggled Weapons From Jordan","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}