Iranian missile aimed at the Jordanian city of Aqaba<\/a> on Sunday, the Israeli military said, after Amman denied the city’s airport and seaport were evacuated over a threat.<\/p>\nWhen asked by AFP about reports of explosions near the Israeli city of Eilat, an Israeli military spokeswoman said both Israeli and Jordanian forces had intercepted a projectile.<\/p>\n
Minutes before the interception, the Israeli military said it had detected missiles launched from Iran towards Aqaba and warned of the possibility of “spillover” into Israeli territory.<\/p>\n
The Jordanian military meanwhile said it had downed “three Iranian missiles that targeted the kingdom’s territory”, while a fourth fell in a deserted area, without specifying where.<\/p>\n
Air raid sirens were activated in the Jordanian capital, Amman, and other parts of the kingdom.<\/p>\n
Later, in a separate statement, the Israeli military said it “launched several interceptors toward missile debris in order to prevent debris impact within Israeli territory”.<\/p>\n
“As a result, interceptor fragments were identified in an open area near the city of Eilat. No damage or injuries were reported.”<\/p>\n
However, the Jordanian government had earlier denied reports that authorities ordered the evacuation of Aqaba’s airport and seaport, after the US embassy said they had been evacuated over a “credible threat”.<\/p>\n
Jordanian government spokesman Mohammad al-Momani told AFP that “authorities have not issued any decisions to evacuate Aqaba Airport or the seaport, and both are operating normally”.<\/p>\n
The US embassy statement came after the US military announced that two service members were killed in Jordan and one was missing following a barrage of Iranian strikes on Friday.<\/p>\n
This marked the first fatalities among its forces since fighting with Iran resumed this month.<\/p>\n
Jordan has repeatedly announced that it has countered Iranian attacks in recent days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A photo shows the Gulf of Aqaba, with the Israeli city of Eilat seen in the background [Getty]…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[33465,34,37,654,73],"class_list":["post-213746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-aqaba","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-jordan","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116947778783352617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}