Al Jazeera Net correspondents
Oman- Nasser Qawwas, father of the Jordanian martyr Amer Qawwas, one of the perpetrators of the shooting attack near the Dead Sea area this Friday morning with the martyr Hossam Abu Ghazaleh, expressed his pride and pride in what his son did.
He stressed, in an interview with Al Jazeera Net, that his son’s blood is not more precious than the blood of the Palestinian people, and that his martyr son always spoke to him about martyrdom and martyrs, and he always got angry when he saw the massacres committed by the Israeli occupation against civilians in the Gaza Strip.
The martyr’s father said, “The last time I saw my son, the martyr Amer, was last Wednesday, and he was behaving mysteriously that we did not understand. He asked me to pick up his private car because he works as a sales representative. He also asked me to respond to any call he received from any party to ask about him.”
He added, “Amer has been married for a short time, and has a single son named Obaida, who is not more than a year old. We are Jordanians of Palestinian origins. Our origins go back to the city of Nablus in the West Bank.” He added, with tears in his eyes, “My martyr son Amer always told me about martyrdom and the status of martyrs. He was following the massacres taking place in the Gaza Strip with great anger, and constantly.”
The father of the martyr, Amer Qawwas, called on the Jordanian government to work to recover his son’s body for burial in Jordan, noting that “none of the Jordanian authorities contacted him, and they have not communicated with him until this moment.”
infiltration
On Friday morning, the Israeli army announced that two Israeli soldiers were wounded in a shooting operation south of the Dead Sea carried out by gunmen who infiltrated from Jordan, indicating that two of them had been “neutralized.”
The Israeli occupation army said, in a statement on Friday, that its forces detected a number of militants who “infiltrated from Jordan towards Israeli territory south of the Dead Sea.” The occupation army forces rushed to the place and “were able to neutralize (kill, wound, or capture) two terrorists, as the statement put it, who opened fire on them.”
The occupation army reported – in a later statement – that its forces killed two gunmen who crossed the border from Jordan, while a third gunman appeared to have fled the scene. Army forces have strengthened their presence in the area and are conducting combing operations on the ground and from the air, searching for the third gunman.
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In a third statement, the Israeli occupation army announced that observers from the 727th Reconnaissance Battalion had spotted earlier today “a number of suspects in the border area with Jordan, south of the Dead Sea, and summoned forces to the site.”
clash
The occupation army added that a female soldier and a reserve soldier from the Home Front Command, under the command of the Yoav Brigade, “killed two who infiltrated into Israeli territory from Jordan, a few meters from the border fence, where they opened fire toward the force.” During the exchange of fire, “an Israeli army soldier and another reserve soldier were lightly and moderately injured, and were taken to receive medical treatment in the hospital,” according to the statement.
Israeli Army Radio reported that there appeared to be an exchange of fire at the gunmen near the border fence after they breached it. For its part, Hebrew media reported that the gunmen were wearing military clothing.
The Israeli authorities issued instructions to the residents of the “Neot HaKikar” settlement and its surroundings to remain in their homes until the completion of the army’s combing operations and to ensure that there are no other armed men.
deny
On the other hand, the Jordanian army denied, today, Friday, that Jordanian soldiers had crossed the western border, following the Israeli occupation army’s announcement that it had detected armed men “infiltrating from Jordan towards Israeli territory south of the Dead Sea,” and shooting at the occupation soldiers, and Israeli media reported after that that the gunmen They were wearing military clothes.
The Jordanian army said in a statement, “There is no truth to what is being circulated through the Hebrew media that Jordanian soldiers crossed the western borders of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.” The statement added, quoting a responsible military source, whose name was not mentioned, that “the army is following developments, stressing the necessity of receiving information from its official sources and not circulating rumors and misleading news.”
