Israeli security forces gather at the site of an alleged attack near the Allenby crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan on September 8, 2024, where the Israeli military said a truck driver opened fire. Three Israelis died. (Photo by Ahmed Gharabi/AFP) (Photo by Ahmed Gharabi/AFP via Getty Images)
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Three people were shot dead at a border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan on Sunday, Israeli officials said, in an attack that appeared to be related to Gaza’s 11-month war.
The military said gunmen in a truck approached the Allenby Bridge intersection from the Jordanian side and opened fire on Israeli security forces, who killed the attacker in a shootout. It is said that the three killed were Israeli civilians. Israel’s Magen David Adom aid department said they were all men in their 50s.
Jordan is investigating the shooting, according to Jordan’s state-run Petra news agency. The Western-aligned Arab country achieved peace with Israel in 1994 but is deeply critical of its policies toward the Palestinians. Jordan has a large Palestinian population; Massive protests against Israel About the war in Gaza.
Allenby Ferry, which crosses the Jordan River, is used primarily by Israelis, Palestinians and international tourists.
The Israeli-occupied West Bank has seen surge in violence The war there has been ongoing since Hamas launched an attack from Gaza on October 7. Israel launches almost daily military arrest attacks on densely populated Palestinian neighborhoods; Settler violence increases and Palestinian attacks on Israelis.
Meanwhile, in Gaza, an Israeli airstrike early Sunday killed five people, including two women, two children and a senior civil defense official – an emergency worker under the Hamas government.
Civil protection authorities said the attack targeted the home of Mohamed Morsi, deputy director of northern Gaza, in the city’s Jabaliya refugee camp.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment. The military said it would try to avoid harming civilians and only target militants.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health stated More than 40,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza since the war began. It does not distinguish between combatants and civilians when counting. The war has caused massive destruction and displaced approximately 90 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million people, often multiple times.
Hamas-led militants killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, Attack on southern Israel on October 7. They kidnapped an additional 250 people and are still holding about 100 of them after releasing most of the rest in exchange for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel during a week-long ceasefire last November. About a third of the remaining hostages in Gaza are believed to be dead.
The United States, Qatar and Egypt have spent months trying to broker a ceasefire and repatriate the hostages, but negotiations have been slow to progress frequently in trouble.
Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem – territory where Palestinians hope to establish a future state – in the 1967 Mideast War. Israel withdrew its soldiers and settlers from Gaza in 2005 but still controls its airspace, coastline and most land crossings. After Hamas seized power from Palestinian rivals in 2007, it joined Egypt in imposing a blockade on Gaza.
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