Jordanian government says West Bank border attack is individual act

September 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Jordanian government has stated that the attack on Sunday morning, which resulted in the deaths of three Israeli men on the Allenby or King Hussein Bridge, which separates the West Bank from Jordan, was an individual act carried out by a Jordanian citizen.

The Jordanian Interior Ministry confirmed the attack, identifying the shooter as Maher Diab Hussein al-Yazi, a resident of Ma’an Governorate who crossed the bridge as a truck driver transporting commercial goods into the West Bank, according to Jordan’s Petra news agency.

Despite these initial results, Amman has said it will continue its investigation and is trying to recover the body of the shooter, who was killed by Israeli security forces.

He also said that all drivers under investigation have been released and that more than a hundred trucks have returned to the country.

The bridge, which had been temporarily closed following the incident, will reopen on Monday morning from 10:00 a.m. (local time) exclusively for travel and will remain closed to truck traffic.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have identified the perpetrator as a “terrorist” from Jordan who, upon arriving in the area, got out of the truck he was driving and opened fire with a pistol at the troops guarding the crossing before being “eliminated.”

The victims have been identified as Yohanan Shchori, 61 years old and father of six children, resident in the Jewish colony of Maale Efraim; Yuri Birnbaum, 65 years old and resident in the settlement of Naama; and Adrian Marcelo Podzamczer, from the settlement of Ariel.

While Israel has denounced the action on a “difficult” day in which the country “is surrounded by the murderous ideology of the axis of evil of Iran,” the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has applauded the “heroic operation” as a “natural response” to Israeli actions against the Palestinians. The Argentine government has also condemned the attack, since one of the deceased, Podzamczer, also had the nationality of the Latin American country.