Attack at Jordan-West Bank crossing kills two Israelis

Israel’s subject says perpetrator ‘neutralised’ aft entering successful humanitarian assistance motortruck from Jordan.

An assailant has killed 2 Israeli men astatine the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge crossing betwixt Jordan and the occupied West Bank, according to Israel’s nationalist ambulance service.

The men, aged astir 20 and 60, were wounded connected Thursday astatine the Israel-controlled crossing and aboriginal pronounced dead, the work said successful a statement.

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Israel’s subject said the attacker was travelling successful a humanitarian assistance motortruck from Jordan and began shooting. Security forces returned occurrence and “neutralised” the assailant, the subject added. Israeli media reports suggested the perpetrator whitethorn person utilized a weapon to stab the victims aft his weapon malfunctioned.

No radical has claimed work for the attack.

After the attack, Israeli forces conducted searches successful the country and “encircled” the adjacent West Bank municipality of Jericho, the subject said.

Jordanian authorities spokesperson Mohammad Momani said authorities successful the kingdom were looking into reports of the onslaught and would denote immoderate findings later.

Jordan’s government-run Petra quality bureau reported rider postulation had been suspended astatine the crossing “after its closure from the different side”.

The King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge, a captious commercialized crossing betwixt Jordan and Israel, was antecedently the tract of an onslaught successful September 2024 erstwhile a gunman from Jordan killed 3 Israeli borderline workers. The crossing was subsequently closed for 2 days.

Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim, reporting from Doha, described the crossing arsenic a “highly secured place” and said the latest onslaught raises questions astir however an equipped assailant managed to get done “unnoticed”.

She added that the span is the lone crossing done which astir Palestinians whitethorn question overseas due to the fact that they are incapable to question from Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport and are not allowed by Israel to physique an airdrome successful the West Bank oregon Gaza.