Interior Ministry: Jordan Shooter is an ‘Individual Act’
CrossFireArabia- September 8, 2024
Jordan’s Interior Ministry announced a Jordanian driver opened fire at the Allenby Crossing (King Hussein Bridge as it is called in Jordan and Al-Karamah Crossing as it is called on the Palestinian side), killing three Israelis and the perpetrator of the operation according to Al Jazeera.
The ministry said in a statement that “initial investigations into the shooting incident on the other side of King Hussein Bridge confirmed that the shooter is a Jordanian citizen named Maher Diab Hussein Al-Jazi, a resident of the Al-Hussainiya area in Ma’an Governorate” south of Amman.
Individual act
It stressed “the incident is an individual act and that investigations are ongoing to reach all the details of the incident,” noting that “coordination is underway between the relevant authorities to receive the body of the perpetrator of the operation so that it can be buried in Jordan.”
The statement explained that “all Jordanian drivers who were investigated (by the Israeli authorities) after the incident were released, and more than 100 trucks returned to Jordan in succession, Sunday.”
The statement concluded by saying that the relevant authorities are also following up on the issue of closing the bridge after the incident.
On Sunday morning, three Israelis were killed after being seriously wounded by gunfire at the Allenby Crossing linking the occupied West Bank and Jordan.
The Jordanian Interior Ministry did not address the motives behind the shooting, but it comes at a time when Israel – with broad American support – has been waging a war on the Gaza Strip since 7 October, leaving more than 135,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women.
In parallel with its war on Gaza, the Israeli army expanded its operations and settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which resulted in the martyrdom of 692 Palestinians, the injury of about 5,700, and the arrest of more than 10,000, according to official Palestinian institutions.
