Jordanian Navy Arrests Israeli Man Attempting to Swim Ashore

The Jordanian army announced on Sunday that its navy apprehended an individual yesterday who attempted to enter Jordanian territory by swimming from the Israeli side. A Jordanian military source told the official Petra news agency that forces identified the man within Jordan's territorial waters, reached his location, and arrested him. He was subsequently handed over to the relevant authorities. The official Jordanian news agency Petra had previously reported the arrest without specifying the man's nationality or the direction from which he approached. The report did not state the exact location where the swimmer was detected, and there is currently no confirmation that the crossing occurred in the Dead Sea. In a separate incident, six labor migrants were apprehended overnight by Israeli Border Police and IDF forces while attempting to cross the border from Jordan to Israel using a rubber boat in the Dead Sea. In June, an attempt by a jet ski to infiltrate Israeli territory from Jordan into the Eilat hotel area was thwarted. A ship's command post identified a jet ski attempting to breach Israeli territory from neighboring Jordan, engaged it, and forced it to flee back to the Jordanian shore. Security officials believe the vessel may have been remotely operated rather than manned, possibly intended to test Israeli defense system alertness.