Israeli army patrol shot at from Jordan: army

An Israeli army patrol came under gunfire from inside Jordan early on Tuesday, the army said, adding that no one was hurt in the rare attack that comes amid Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza.

"A border guard patrol near the Rabin crossing came under fire from an unknown source from inside Jordanian territory and fired back in their direction," a spokesman told AFP.

"There were no injuries or damage," he said.

A Jordanian military official denied the incident.

"No firing took place from Jordanian territory in the direction of an Israeli patrol and the reported information is totally unfounded," the official told AFP, asking not to be named.

A Jordanian government official questioned the Israeli version of events.

"Sometimes hunters open fire in this area -- without that becoming a military incident," the official told AFP.

The incident came two days after a similar attack from inside Syrian territory, when an unknown gunman opened fire on Israeli soldiers and civilians working along the border fence.

No one was hurt in that incident either.

Israel's Border Police opened an investigation into the shooting.

Jordan signed a peace treaty with the Jewish state in 1994, becoming the second Arab state to do so, after Egypt.

Most of Jordan's five million citizens are of Palestinian origin, they or their parents having been expelled or fled to Jordan in the fighting that accompanied the creation of Israel in 1948.

Thousands of Jordanians have taken to the streets to protest Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip that has killed at least 925 Palestinians.

Jordan's King Abdullah II said on Monday the kingdom backs an Egyptian truce proposal to end Israel's war in the Gaza Strip, according to the palace.