Two Israeli soldiers killed in operation at West Bank-Jordan crossing
Two Israeli soldiers have been shot dead near a border crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan, the Israeli military and medics say.
An attacker who arrived in a truck carrying humanitarian aid from Jordan shot dead two men Thursday at the main border crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan.
The soldiers were wounded at the occupied lands-controlled crossing and later pronounced dead, Israel’s national ambulance service said in a statement.
The attacker was killed by security forces at the scene, the military said.
A queue of vehicles was seen as Israeli forces closed off a road leading to the crossing, reports said.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Jordanian foreign ministry said the attacker was a Jordanian national who had been delivering aid to Gaza for three months.
The incident comes one year after three Israeli settlers were shot dead in the same place by an attacker who the Israeli military identified as a Jordanian truck driver.
The Allenby crossing, in the Jordan Valley, is the only international gateway for Palestinians from the West Bank that does not require entering the occupied lands, which have occupied the territory since 1967.
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, engaged in defending Gaza against a genocidal Israeli campaign, hailed the operation as a response to "the daily crimes and massacres committed by the [Israeli] occupation against our Palestinian people".
Thursday's attack comes as the Israeli regime continued the ground invasion of Gaza City for the second day amid artillery shelling and airstrikes, forcing thousands of people to flee to southern Gaza.
Since the Israeli regime launched its genocidal campaign in Gaza on October 2023, it has killed 65,141 people and wounded 165,697, most of them women and children.
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