Attack at Jordan-West Bank crossing kills two Israelis

According to Israel’s national ambulance service, an assailant attacked two Israeli men at the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge crossing between Jordan and the occupied West Bank.

The service said in a statement that the men, between the ages of 20 and 60, were hurt at the Israel-controlled crossing on Thursday and later declared dead.

The attacker started shooting as he approached a truck carrying aid from Jordan, according to Israel’s military. The assailant was “neutralized” by security forces, the military added. After his gun failed, according to Israeli media reports, the killer may have stabbed the victims with a knife.

No organization has accepted responsibility for the attack.

Israeli forces searched the area after the attack and “circumcised” Jericho, a nearby West Bank town, according to the military.

Authorities in the kingdom were looking into reports of the attack, according to Mohammad Momani, a spokesman for the Jordanian government, and would release any findings as soon as possible.

After the crossing’s closure from the other side, according to Jordan’s government-run Petra news agency, passenger traffic had been suspended there.

An attack occurred on the Jordan-Israel trade route’s King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge in September of this year, when three Israeli border workers were killed by a Jordanian gunman. After that, the crossing was only open for two days.

According to Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim, who is based in Doha, the crossing is “highly secured,” and it raises questions about how an armed assailant managed to pass through “unnoticed.”