Israel says 3 killed in attack near West Bank border with Jordan
The Israeli army says it has received reports of an attack near the Allenby Bridge with Jordan.
According to Israeli medics and media reports, three people have been confirmed killed in the attack near the Allenby Bridge on the border with Jordan. “There are several casualties at the scene, and the shooter has been neutralised,” Israeli police said in a statement.
Israeli army and medical officials are saying that the three people killed in the attack were civilians. “We found three men lying unconscious, with no pulse and not breathing, with gunshot wounds. Together with the Israeli military medical team, we performed resuscitation efforts, but unfortunately, we had to declare their deaths on scene,” the Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom said in a statement.
The Israeli army says the alleged attacker arrived through Jordan in a truck heading towards Allenby Bridge and opened fire at the forces guarding the crossing before being killed by the security forces.
Jordan and Israel have closed the crossing, also known as the King Hussein Bridge, after the attack that killed three Israeli civilians. Nathmi Muhanna, Director General of the Palestinian Border and Crossings Authority, was quoted as saying by the Palestinian Wafa news agency that traffic at the bridge has been completely halted.
The crossing is near Jericho
Attack near Allenby crossing ‘very big security breach’
This is the only crossing for Palestinians to go from the occupied West Bank to Jordan. It’s a place that has really high security. We’re talking about the Israeli army and all other security departments working there to make sure that it’s highly militarised.
Palestinians can get searched and inspected up to five times there.
And the fact that this happened in such an area, where a perpetrator has managed to get a weapon inside and kill three people, is considered a very big security breach.
Israeli forces cordon off Jericho
The Israeli Army Radio is reporting that the military has cordoned off Jericho in the occupied West Bank following the deadly assault at the West Bank-Jordan border crossing.
Israeli army says 3 killed at border crossing were security guards
Three people killed in the shooting at the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge between the occupied West Bank and Jordan were security guards, the Israeli army has clarified.
The military said a truck driver opened fire at the border crossing before being shot dead. It added that the alleged attacker reached the area of the crossing, in 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 military statement said.
“Three Israeli civilians were pronounced dead as a result of the attack,” the military said, later clarifying to AFP that they were “working as security guards” and not in the army or police.
