Shooting attack at the West Bank-Jordan border crossing kills 3 Israelis

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******** security forces gather at the scene of a reported ******* near the Allenby Crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan on September 8, 2024, where the ******** military said a truck driver opened *****, ******** three Israelis. The (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Three people were shot and ******* Sunday at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, ******** officials said, in what appeared to be an ******* linked to the 

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The military said the gunman approached the Allenby Bridge Crossing from the Jordanian side in a truck and opened ***** at ******** security forces, who ******* the assailant in a shootout. It said the three people ******* were ******** civilians. *******’s Magen David Adom rescue service said they were all men in their 50s.

Jordan is investigating the *********, its state-run Petra News Agency reported. The Western-allied ***** country made peace with ******* in 1994 but is deeply critical of its policies toward the Palestinians. Jordan has a large ************ population and has seen 

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 over the war in Gaza.

The Allenby crossing over the Jordan River is mainly used by Israelis, Palestinians and international tourists.

The ********-occupied West Bank has seen 

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 since ******’ Oct. 7 ******* out of Gaza triggered the war there. ******* has launched near-daily military arrest raids into dense ************ residential areas, and there has also been 

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 and ************ attacks on Israelis.

In Gaza, meanwhile, an ******** airstrike early Sunday ******* five people, including two women, two children and a senior official in the Civil Defense — first responders who operate under the ******-run government.

The Civil Defense said the strike targeted the home of its deputy director for north Gaza, Mohammed Morsi, in the urban Jabaliya ******** camp.

There was no immediate comment from the ******** military. The army says it tries to avoid harming civilians and only targets militants.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says 

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 since the war began. It does not differentiate between fighters and civilians in its count. The war has caused vast destruction and displaced around 90% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million, often multiple times.

******-led militants ******* some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, 

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. They abducted another 250, and are still holding around 100 of them after releasing most of the rest in exchange for Palestinians imprisoned by ******* during a weeklong cease-***** last November. Around a third of the remaining hostages inside Gaza are believed to be *****.

The ******* States, Qatar and Egypt have spent months trying to broker a cease-***** and the return of the hostages, but the negotiations 

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******* captured the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem — territories the Palestinians want for a future state — in the 1967 ******** war. ******* withdrew soldiers and settlers from Gaza in 2005 but maintained control over its airspace, coastline and most of its land crossings. Along with Egypt, it imposed a blockade on Gaza after ****** seized power from rival ************ forces in 2007.

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