2024-09-08 16:04:27
An Israeli citizen of Argentine origin was one of the three new victims. terrorist attack It happened this Sunday morning at the Allenby Bridge crossing between Jordan and the West Bank
This is Adrián Marcelo Podzamczer, who settled with Ma’ale Efraim and Na’ama from the West Bank Point settlers Yohan Shchori (61) and Yuri Birnbaum (65) died together. The news was confirmed by the Jewish News Agency.
Regarding the attack, the Israeli military said that a gunman in a truck approached the Allenby Bridge crossing from the Jordanian side and opened fire on Israeli security forces, who killed the attacker in a gun battle. A spokesman for the Israel Airports Authority, which is responsible for border affairs, said the attacker was Jordanian.
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Three victims of terror attack include an Argentine-Israeli citizen
Jordan is investigating the shooting, state news agency Petra reported. The Western-aligned Arab country signed a peace deal with Israel in 1994 but has sharply criticized its Palestinian policies. Jordan has a large Palestinian population and has seen large protests against Israel over the Gaza war.
Allenby Ferry on the Jordan River, also known as King Hussein Bridge, is used primarily by Israelis, Palestinians and international tourists, and is also used for the transit of goods. There have been few incidents there over the years, but in 2014 Israeli security guards shot and killed a Jordanian judge who they said had attacked them.
Israeli and Jordanian authorities said the crossing was closed until further notice, with Israel later announcing the closure of two land crossings with Jordan, near Beit She’an in the north and Eilat in the south.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the attack and linked it to the broader conflict between Israel and Iran and its allied militant groups, including Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Violence has increased in the Israeli-occupied West Bank since an October 7 Hamas attack from Gaza sparked war in the region. Israel has launched almost daily military detention attacks on densely populated Palestinian neighborhoods, and there has been an increase in settler violence and Palestinian attacks against Israelis.
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The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that more than 40,000 Palestinians have died in Gaza 11 months since the war began. He did not specify how many were combatants and how many were civilians. The war has wreaked havoc, displacing nearly 90 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million people, often multiple times.
Hamas militants killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in an attack on Israel on October 7. During a week-long ceasefire last November, they kidnapped an additional 250 people and released most of the rest in exchange for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, about 100 of whom are still being held. About a third of the remaining hostages in Gaza are believed to be dead.
The United States, Qatar and Egypt have spent months trying to negotiate a ceasefire and repatriation of the hostages, but talks have repeatedly stalled.
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Israel, which captured the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem – areas that the Palestinians hope will become a future state – in the 1967 Mideast war pulled out soldiers and settlers from Gaza in 2005 but still controls them airspace, coastlines and most land. After Hamas seized power from Palestinian rivals in 2007, it joined Egypt in imposing a blockade on Gaza.
* Message from Associated Press.
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