Three Israeli settlers killed in retaliatory shooting operation at West Bank-Jordan crossing
At least three Israeli settlers in their 50s have been killed in a retaliatory shooting operation near the Allenby Bridge on the border between the occupied West Bank and Jordan, amid relentless ground and aerial offensives against the besieged Gaza Strip.
The Israeli Magen David Adom ambulance service said it treated the men at the scene, before being forced to declare their deaths.
“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 the scene,” it announced in a statement.
The Israeli military asserted that the assailant arrived at the terminal in a truck from Jordan and opened fire at workers at the crossing.
He was then shot dead by security forces, the army added.
Israeli and Jordanian authorities have both announced that the Allenby Bridge crossing has been closed until further notice following the deadly retaliatory shooting incident there.
A Jordanian official told Reuters news agency that the crossing, also known as the King Hussein Bridge, has been shut as authorities begin an investigation into the shooting.
Since Israel unleashed a war on the besieged Gaza Strip in early October 2023, casualties have been rising in the West Bank as a result of intensified near-daily Israeli raids into villages and cities in the occupied territories.
At least 692 Palestinians, including 158 minors, have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces or extremist Jewish settlers since the war began. More than 5,700 Palestinians have been wounded and at least 10,400 detained.
At least 40,939 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have also been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip during the regime’s genocidal war.
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