Two Israeli troopers had been killed in a capturing and stabbing assault close to Allenby Crossing between the West Financial institution and Jordan on Thursday. The assailant was a Jordanian who had been driving a humanitarian help truck headed for the Gaza Strip.
The perpetrator arrived at Allenby Crossing from the Jordanian facet at round 3 p.m., driving a truck transporting humanitarian help supposed for the Gaza Strip. Upon his arrival, he opened hearth at troopers on the crossing with a handgun, earlier than the truck could possibly be inspected, a preliminary army investigation discovered.
He then bought out of the truck and, after his gun apparently jammed, stabbed the 2 troopers repeatedly till safety guards on the crossing opened hearth at him, killing him.
The slain troopers had been named as: Lt. Col. (res.) Yitzhak Harosh, 68, a reservist within the Civil Administration, from Jerusalem, and Sgt. Oran Hershko, 20, a liaison officer with international forces within the IDF’s Tevel worldwide cooperation unit, from Tel Mond.
The Israel Protection Forces confirmed that safety forces had “neutralized the terrorist” on the scene of the assault, including that troops had been finishing up scans within the space for added suspects and briefly encircled the close by West Financial institution city of Jericho. The IDF lifted its partial closure on the town after an hour.
Israel’s International Ministry confirmed that the attacker was a citizen of Jordan, and blamed the assault on Jordanian incitement.
Lt. Col. (res.) Yitzhak Harosh and Sgt. Oran Hershko, who had been killed in an assault at Allenby Crossing, September 18, 2025. (Israel Protection Forces)
“Israel facilitates humanitarian help to Gaza, and the terrorists exploit it to homicide Israelis,” wrote the International Ministry.
“A Jordanian who was presupposed to drive a humanitarian help truck to Gaza, murdered two Israelis on the Allenby border crossing,” the ministry wrote on X, utilizing uncharacteristically pugnacious language. “That is yet one more results of the vile incitement in Jordan. That is the results of the echoing of Hamas’s marketing campaign of lies.”
Throughout the border, Jordanian authorities spokesman Mohammad al-Momani mentioned Jordan was monitoring reviews of a safety incident on the Allenby Crossing.
IDF troops function on the scene of an assault at Allenby Crossing between Jordan and the West Financial institution, September 18, 2025. (Israel Protection Forces)
In a press release in a while Thursday night, the Jordanian International Ministry introduced that the nation’s safety providers had launched an investigation into “the capturing incident” on the Israeli facet of the order crossing.
The international ministry mentioned Jordan “condemned and rejected” the assault “as a violation of worldwide regulation, Jordan’s pursuits, and its potential to ship humanitarian help to the Gaza Strip.
Sharing extra particulars concerning the assailant, the assertion named him as Abd al-Mutalib al-Qaisi, a 57-year-old who had began working as a truck driver distributing help to Gaza simply three months in the past.
No terror group instantly claimed accountability for the assault.
In keeping with Israel’s Coordinator of Authorities Actions within the Territories, because the starting of the warfare in Gaza in October 2023, almost 10,000 vehicles of help, or over 144,000 tons, have been transferred to the Gaza Strip from Jordan utilizing land crossings with Israel and the West Financial institution. The overall represents some 7% of all help deliveries.
An Israeli safety supply instructed Kan information that the lethal assault would probably intrude with Gaza help supply schedules, because the Israeli facet of Allenby Crossing, in addition to the route from the crossing to the Gaza border, can be closed for an unspecified time period.
The IDF confirmed as a lot, saying on Thursday night that it was recommending to the nation’s political management to quickly halt the transport of Gaza-bound help by way of the Allenby Crossing.
IDF Chief of Employees Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir issued the advice following consultations with COGAT chief Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian and Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, the army mentioned.
The help coming by way of the border crossing must be halted till an investigation is accomplished and the inspection procedures for Jordanian drivers are up to date, they beneficial.
Assist will proceed coming into the Gaza Strip through different routes, a army official mentioned, amid the quickly increasing Israeli offensive in Gaza Metropolis, which has left tens of 1000’s of Palestinians fleeing to the south of the Strip.
The Allenby Bridge Crossing is the West Financial institution’s sole crossing with Jordan.
In September 2024, three Israeli males, Yohanan Shchori, Yuri Birnbaum, and Adrian Marcelo Podzamczer, were killed in a terrorist capturing on the Allenby Crossing, carried out by a Jordanian truck driver.
The next month, in October 2024, two Israelis had been wounded in a capturing close to the Lifeless Sea carried out by terror operatives who had infiltrated from Jordan.
