The only crossing in between Jordan and the occupied West Bank– the King Hussein Bridge, likewise referred to as the Allenby Bridge– has actually been nearby Israel.
Israel likewise closed 2 of its own crossings with Jordan on Sunday: the Wadi Araba Crossing, or Yitzhak Rabin Crossing, near Eilat, Israel, and Aqaba, Jordan, both on the Red Sea, and the Jordan River Crossing near Beit She’an, Israel, and Irbid, Jordan.
Jordan likewise closed the crossings from its side on Sunday and Monday.
The closures followed a shooting on Sunday when a Jordanian truck motorist eliminated 3 members of Israel’s security forces.
The chauffeur was eliminated quickly after by an Israeli security personnel. Israel resumed the border crossings for traveler traffic on Monday early morning, however they stayed closed to freight trucks.
What do we understand?
The shooter was recognized as Maher Dyab Hussein al-Jazi, a Jordanian resident from the Maan governorate south of the capital, Amman.
He shot the Israeli security members with a pistol, according to The Times of Israel. His bro Shady al-Jazi informed a Jordanian news outlet that his sibling would routinely cross the border to unload his truck and go back to Jordan.
Recently, “seeing all the killing in Gaza … might inspire him,” Shady al-Jazi stated in the telecasted interview.
Al-Jazi’s actions “show the prevalent rage versus Israel in Jordanian society”, Sean Yom– a specialist on Jordan at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the author of From Resilience to Revolution– informed Al Jazeera.
He was “not an Islamist, an Iranian representative or trained terrorist”, Yom stated. He included that the “violence might be asserted upon the dreadful pictures of Gaza saturating the Jordanian public sphere today”.
Israeli and Jordanian authorities are still examining.
Is this going to cause more attacks?
Professionals state no.
“It’s absolutely a one-off since Jordanian authorities have the [Muslim] Brotherhood and other traditional sources of anti-Israeli fervour under tight control, particularly with the elections in a number of days,” Yom stated, describing Tuesday’s basic election.
“But they can’t manage every voice of anger.”
Will this effect Jordan’s parliamentary elections?
Not likely.
The occurrence has actually neither altered any of the project platforms nor do experts anticipate it to effect turnout.
What about imports and exports?
Every day, lots of trucks cross from Jordan to the occupied West Bank. The products that cross the King Hussein/Allenby Bridge in specific fill both Palestinian markets in the West Bank and Israeli markets. Israel exported about $9.1 m worth of items to Jordan and imported $42.4 m in July.
Both figures are greater than they remained in the exact same duration in 2023.
Who utilizes the bridge crossing?
Palestinians and travelers can cross although Palestinians should line up in various lines than the travelers.
It is the only method Palestinians can leave the occupied West Bank to take a trip anywhere. Israeli residents can not go through here. They go to the Yitzhak Rabin or Jordan River crossings.
How did Israel respond to the shooting?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attempted to link it to Iran.
In his weekly federal government conference, Netanyahu stated Israel is “surrounded by a homicidal ideology led by Iran’s axis of evil”.
Other Israeli authorities called al-Jazi a “terrorist”.
“The terrorist shot dead 3 workers of the Allenby terminal at close quarters,” Alex Chen, the supervisor of the crossing, informed CNN.
What about Jordan?
Sufian Qudah, spokesperson for Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, published on X that the shooting was an “specific attack”.
He included that the ministry turned down violence and required “attending to all causes and escalatory actions that produce it”.
He then mentioned the requirement for an end to “continued Israeli aggressiveness in Gaza” and its “harmful escalation” in the West Bank.