Jordanian border guards arrested a man who was trying to enter Israel in a truck that was equipped with firebombs, Jordanian military officials said Tuesday.

The driver had ignored orders to stop and have his car searched at the checkpoint, instead trying to drive through the roadblocks separating the two countries. “Materials used to carry out illegal acts were found in the vehicle, and the driver admitted that he intended to use them,” the Jordanian army said in a statement.

This was not the first terror-related incident to occur on Jordan’s borders in recent weeks. In late June, six Islamic State-affiliated militants detonated bombs on the Syrian-Jordanian border, killing six soldiers and injuring 14 more. Jordan responded by closing that section of the border.

Last week, Israeli forces seized arms that had been smuggled from Jordan into Israel, including 20 guns, 5 M-16 rifles, and various other weaponry. And earlier this month, Israeli forces apprehended a Jordanian man who had jumped the fence separating the northern border of the two countries. The man was described by the Israeli Defense Forces as “mentally unstable,” and had been throwing rocks at passing vehicles when IDF forces shot and subsequently arrested him.

Israel began construction in January on a fence on the southern border with Jordan. The fence will stretch from the southern city of Eilat up some 18 miles to the new international airport being constructed in the Timna Valley. The Knesset approved plans on July 19 to construct an additional fence on the northern Israeli-Jordanian border, as a precaution to prevent Jordanian and other foreign infiltrators from entering the country. The two countries share a 150-miles border, most of which lies in the Negev desert.

Strict security measures and cooperation between forces have been the norm since Jordan and Israel signed a peace treaty in 1994. Jordan’s newly-elected Prime Minister, Hani Mulki, was intimately involved in the negotiations of that peace treaty and hopes to use his new position to revitalize Israeli-Jordanian economic ties. While about half of Jordan’s population is Palestinian, the country’s leaders recognize the need for positive bilateral relations with Israel; Jordan depends on Israeli water technology, and the two are set to begin operating a gas pipeline in the Dead Sea region in 2017. The two countries have also conducted joint air force training sessions as part of American multinational military exercises, and a group of pilots from the Royal Jordanian Air Force paid a “working visit” to Israel in December.

Jordan is also responsible for the security at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Skirmishes there, however, are not uncommon; two guards reportedly beat a tourist visiting the site on Tuesday morning, and have been arrested by Israeli police. The victim, reportedly an archaeologist, was only lightly injured.