Syria fires rockets into Jordan, wounding child
Amman summons Syrian envoy in protest
Ilan Ben Zion is an AFP reporter and a former news editor at The Times of Israel.
Syrian rockets pounded northern Jordan on Sunday, wounding a 4-year-old child and reigniting tensions between Damascus and Amman.
Amman summoned the Syrian ambassador after four rockets from Syria landed on the Jordanian side of the border.
“A young girl was injured on Sunday after four rockets fell on an area near the border with Syria as a result of clashes inside Syria,” Information Minister and government spokesman Samih Maaytah told AFP.
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Sunday’s incident was the latest in increasingly frequent cross-border skirmishes between Syrian and Jordanian forces. Last week Jordanian soldiers opened fired on Syrian troops after the latter fired on refugees fleeing southward into Jordan. At the beginning of August, skirmishes between border troops left a Jordanian soldier and two Syrian nationals injured.
The Times of Israel Community.