A bomb exploded near a car carrying three Israeli diplomats in Jordan on Thursday but none was hurt, Israeli media said.
The blast occurred at around 5 p.m. (1500 GMT) close to the Allenby Bridge crossing over the Jordan river between Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Israel’s Army Radio said.
Asked about the report, a spokesman for Israel’s Foreign Ministry said: "We are checking and not commenting for now."
Israel’s Channel Two television said the car had been en route from the Israeli embassy in Amman but that the ambassador, Danny Nevo, was not aboard.
Jordan is one of a handful of Arab countries to have diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. Those ties have been frayed by Israel’s crackdown on a Palestinian uprising that erupted in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 2000.
The Israeli supervisor at Allenby crossing, Yoni Dotan, said he had heard no explosion. "We only heard about this through the media reports," he told Reuters by telephone.
Allenby, known to Jordanians as King Hussein Bridge, lies about midway on the 80 km (50 mile) route between Amman and Jerusalem, a few kilometers (miles) north of the Dead Sea.
Jordan is one of a handful of Arab countries to have any diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. Those ties have been frayed by Israel’s crackdown on a Palestinian uprising that erupted in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 2000.
Israel’s Jordan embassy confirmed the blast.