Three Israeli safety guards had been killed Sunday when a gunman opened hearth on them close to the border crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan.
The lethal capturing on the Allenby Bridge crossing, often known as the King Hussein Bridge crossing, comes amid surging Israeli violence, with main army raids, within the occupied territory.
The army mentioned the gunman reached the realm of the crossing, within the Jordan Valley, in a truck “from Jordan.”
The driver “exited the truck and opened fire at Israeli security forces operating at the bridge,” a army assertion mentioned.
Three Israeli safety guards, who weren’t a part of the police or military, had been pronounced lifeless because of the assault, the army mentioned.
The attacker was shot lifeless by forces, the army added.
Jordan’s Interior Ministry mentioned authorities in Amman had been “investigating the incident,” and a Jordanian safety supply instructed AFP that the crossing’s Jordanian aspect had been closed.
The crossing is the one worldwide gateway for Palestinians from the West Bank that doesn’t require coming into Israel, which has occupied the territory since 1967.
Private safety guards function the crossing alongside Israeli safety forces stationed there.
Israel’s emergency medical service Magen David Adom mentioned earlier that three folks had died of gunshot wounds on the crossing, in what police described as a capturing assault.
Israeli media reviews mentioned the assailant had opened hearth at an inspection space.
The army mentioned it had deployed troopers to the scene of the capturing to “rule out the suspicion of the truck being rigged with explosives.”
Violence within the West Bank has soared because the struggle in Gaza broke out after the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion.
Since then, Israeli troops or settlers have killed at the least 662 Palestinians within the West Bank which Israel occupied in 1967, in keeping with the Palestinian Health Ministry.
At least 23 Israelis, together with members of the safety forces, have been killed in Palestinian assaults throughout the identical interval, Israeli officers say.
Source: www.dailysabah.com