{"id":22204,"date":"2025-09-18T14:55:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=22204"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:55:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:55:52","slug":"attack-at-jordan-west-bank-crossing-kills-two-israelis-israel-palestine-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=22204","title":{"rendered":"Attack at Jordan-West Bank crossing kills two Israelis | Israel-Palestine conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>Israel\u2019s military says perpetrator \u2018neutralised\u2019 after entering in humanitarian aid truck from Jordan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 18 Sep 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">18 Sep 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>An assailant has killed two Israeli men at the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge crossing between Jordan and the occupied West Bank, according to Israel\u2019s national ambulance service.<\/p>\n<p>The men, aged about 20 and 60, were wounded on Thursday at the Israel-controlled crossing and later pronounced dead, the service said in a statement.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 3 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s military said the attacker was travelling in a humanitarian aid truck from Jordan and began shooting. Security forces returned fire and \u201cneutralised\u201d the assailant, the military added. Israeli media reports suggested the perpetrator may have used a knife to stab the victims after his gun malfunctioned.<\/p>\n<p>No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>After the attack, Israeli forces conducted searches in the area and \u201cencircled\u201d the nearby West Bank town of Jericho, the military said.<\/p>\n<p>Jordanian government spokesman Mohammad Momani said authorities in the kingdom were looking into reports of the attack and would announce any findings later.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan\u2019s government-run Petra news agency reported passenger traffic had been suspended at the crossing \u201cafter its closure from the other side\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge, a vital trade crossing between Jordan and Israel, was previously the site of an attack in September 2024 when a gunman from Jordan killed three Israeli border workers. The crossing was subsequently closed for two days.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Nida Ibrahim, reporting from Doha, described the crossing as a \u201chighly secured place\u201d and said the latest attack raises questions about how an armed assailant managed to get through \u201cunnoticed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the bridge is the only crossing through which most Palestinians may travel abroad because they are unable to travel from Israel\u2019s Ben-Gurion International Airport and are not allowed by Israel to build an airport in the West Bank or Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s military says perpetrator \u2018neutralised\u2019 after entering in humanitarian aid truck from Jordan. Published On 18 Sep 202518 Sep 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share An assailant has killed two Israeli men at the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge crossing between Jordan and the occupied West Bank, according to Israel\u2019s national ambulance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[673,3189,267,12009,13622,1758,13621,3114,150],"class_list":{"0":"post-22204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-attack","9":"tag-bank","10":"tag-conflict","11":"tag-crossing","12":"tag-israelis","13":"tag-israelpalestine","14":"tag-jordanwest","15":"tag-kills","16":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}