A sea-borne infiltration attempt from Jordan was foiled in the Gulf of Eilat about two weeks ago, according to a report by military journalist Shay Levy. A jet ski or unmanned vessel exiting Jordan was identified and struck by an Israeli Navy ship, which drove it away. The IDF has not officially confirmed the incident.
A report by military journalist Shay Levy, posted Tuesday morning, details a foiled maritime infiltration from Jordan into the Gulf of Eilat that took place roughly two weeks ago. According to Levy, a jet ski or unmanned surface vessel departed Jordan and was detected by an Israeli Navy ship, which struck and repelled it. The exact location and the infiltrator's identity remain unspecified, and the IDF has not officially confirmed the incident.
This account adds a new layer to the sequence of sea-borne threats from Jordan. The previous incident was publicly disclosed by the IDF on Monday, June 22, at 23:01 Jerusalem, when the military confirmed that the Navy had thwarted a jet ski infiltration near the Eilat hotel district — a disclosure that contradicted a Shin Bet denial of having concrete intelligence on the threat, as The Zioneer reported at the time. The newly reported event, described as occurring "about two weeks ago" relative to Tuesday's post, appears to predate that publicly-known incident, though the threads remain separate.
Meanwhile, a third attempted infiltration from Jordan was reported overnight Monday-Tuesday, according to a separate bulletin noting it as the second such event in as many days. The cumulative picture from these reports suggest multiple attempted sea-borne infiltrations from Jordan in recent weeks, with varying levels of official confirmation.
The Levy report remains single-sourced and unconfirmed by the IDF. The precise timeline, how this event relates chronologically to the confirmed hotel-district incident, and whether any of these events involved the same or different perpetrators, remain open questions.
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