https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/08/shooting-allenby-bridge-jordan-west-bank-israel/
A Jordanian gunman killed three Israelis on Sunday at the Israeli-controlled border crossing that connects Jordan with the West Bank, according to authorities from the two countries.
The attack is the deadliest on record at the typically quiet crossing, which is the main point of entry and exit for Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israel and Jordan are close allies with Washington and signed a U.S.-backed peace treaty in 1994.
Israel closed Allenby and its two other land crossings with Jordan in response to the shooting, according to the Airports Authority, which said later that all three would reopen on Monday for people but not for cargo.
Palestinians in the West Bank now travel back and forth with a laissez-passer document, though many also have Jordanian citizenship. After Oct. 7, Israel canceled all permits for West Bank Palestinians to enter Israel, including for the few with permits to travel through Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport.
On Sunday, Hamas praised the attack and said it was “executed by a fearless Jordanian individual” in response to Israel’s war in Gaza and its actions in the West Bank and around al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, a holy site for Jews and Muslims that is administered by Jordan and controlled by Israel.
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