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3 murdered in terrorist shooting attack on Israel-Jordan border

Truck driver entering Israel from Jordan opens fire at border crossing, murdering three.

By David Rosenberg, World Israel News

Three people were killed Sunday morning in a terrorist shooting attack at a checkpoint on the Israel-Jordan border.

The attack occurred on the Allenby Bridge, the primary border crossing between Israel and Jordan, when a truck arriving from Jordan stopped at the terminal and the driver exited the vehicle, opening fire on workers on the Israeli side of the border.

Three Israeli border workers, all identified as men in their 50s, were critically wounded in the shooting, and later succumbed to their wounds.

“This is a very severe incident,” said Magen David Adom paramedic Yotam Tzur.

“We found three men lying unconscious, with no pulse and not breathing, with gunshot wounds. Together with the IDF medical team, we performed resuscitation efforts, but unfortunately, we had to declare their deaths on scene.”

Israeli security personnel operating at the border crossing opened fire on the terrorist, killing him.

An IDF medical team and Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah emergency first responders were dispatched to the Allenby Bridge to treat the victims, though paramedics were eventually forced to declare all three dead at the scene.

“It was a very difficult scene at the Allenby Crossing,” said Avi Yudkovsky, a United Hatzalah EMT who was dispatched to the scene of the attack.

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“Three men in their fifties sustained severe gunshot wounds. Despite efforts to resuscitate them, they were pronounced dead at the scene due to the severity of their injuries.”

Large numbers of IDF forces were deployed to the area, and army sappers dispatched to examine the terrorist’s truck for any possible explosives.

David Elhayani, mayor of the Jordan Valley Regional Council, said that the driver had been identified as a Jordanian national.

“We know that it was a Jordanian truck driver who got out of his truck, drew a pistol, emptied out the first magazine and loaded in a second magazine. The results were very difficult, with three people murdered. We know that in Jordan there is an Arab population originating from Judea and Samaria, and that it supports Hamas.  They also back the despicable murders of October 7th.”