The one crossing between Jordan and the occupied West Financial institution – the King Hussein Bridge, also called the Allenby Bridge – has been closed by Israel.
Israel additionally closed two of its personal crossings with Jordan on Sunday: the Wadi Araba Crossing, or Yitzhak Rabin Crossing, close to Eilat, Israel, and Aqaba, Jordan, each on the Purple Sea, and the Jordan River Crossing close to Beit She’an, Israel, and Irbid, Jordan.
Jordan additionally closed the crossings from its aspect on Sunday and Monday.
The closures got here after a shooting on Sunday when a Jordanian truck driver killed three members of Israel’s safety forces.
The driving force was killed shortly after by an Israeli safety guard. Israel reopened the border crossings for passenger visitors on Monday morning, however they remained closed to cargo vehicles.
What do we all know?
The shooter was recognized as Maher Dyab Hussein al-Jazi, a Jordanian citizen from the Maan governorate south of the capital, Amman.
He shot the Israeli safety members with a handgun, in accordance with The Instances of Israel. His brother Shady al-Jazi instructed a Jordanian information outlet that his brother would often cross the border to dump his truck and return to Jordan.
However recently, “seeing all of the killing in Gaza … may inspire him,” Shady al-Jazi mentioned within the televised interview.
Al-Jazi’s actions “mirror the widespread rage towards Israel in Jordanian society”, Sean Yom – an professional on Jordan at Temple College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the creator of From Resilience to Revolution – instructed Al Jazeera.
He was “not an Islamist, an Iranian agent or educated terrorist”, Yom mentioned. He added that the “violence could also be predicated upon the horrific photographs of Gaza saturating the Jordanian public sphere proper now”.
Israeli and Jordanian officers are nonetheless investigating.
Is that this going to result in extra assaults?
Consultants say no.
“It’s undoubtedly a one-off as a result of Jordanian authorities have the [Muslim] Brotherhood and different mainstream sources of anti-Israeli fervour underneath tight management, particularly with the elections in a few days,” Yom mentioned, referring to Tuesday’s common election.
“However they’ll’t management each voice of anger.”
Will this influence Jordan’s parliamentary elections?
Unlikely.
The incident has neither modified any of the marketing campaign platforms nor do analysts anticipate it to influence turnout.
What about imports and exports?
Each day, dozens of vehicles cross from Jordan to the occupied West Financial institution. The products that transfer throughout the King Hussein/Allenby Bridge particularly fill each Palestinian markets within the West Financial institution and Israeli markets. Israel exported about $9.1m value of products to Jordan and imported $42.4m in July.
Each figures are greater than they have been in the identical interval in 2023.
Who makes use of the bridge crossing?
Palestinians and vacationers can cross though Palestinians should line up in numerous strains than the vacationers.
It’s the solely manner Palestinians can go away the occupied West Financial institution to journey anyplace. Israeli residents can not move via right here. They go to the Yitzhak Rabin or Jordan River crossings.
How did Israel react to the taking pictures?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to attach it to Iran.
In his weekly authorities assembly, Netanyahu mentioned Israel is “surrounded by a murderous ideology led by Iran’s axis of evil”.
Different Israeli officers known as al-Jazi a “terrorist”.
“The terrorist shot lifeless three workers of the Allenby terminal at shut vary,” Alex Chen, the supervisor of the crossing, instructed CNN.
What about Jordan?
Sufian Qudah, spokesman for Jordan’s Ministry of International Affairs and Expatriates, posted on X that the taking pictures was an “particular person assault”.
He added that the ministry rejected violence and known as for “addressing all causes and escalatory steps that generate it”.
He then spoke of the necessity for an finish to “continued Israeli aggression in Gaza” and its “harmful escalation” within the West Financial institution.
