The just crossing inbetween Jordan and the inhabited West Bank – the King Hussein Bridge, likewise understood as the Allenby Bridge – hasactually been closed by 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 came after a shooting on Sunday when a Jordanian truck chauffeur eliminated 3 members of Israel’s security forces.
The motorist was eliminated soon after by an Israeli security guard. Israel resumed the border crossings for traveler traffic on Monday earlymorning, 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 sibling Shady al-Jazi informed a Jordanian news outlet that his bro would routinely cross the border to offload his truck and return to Jordan.
But recently, “seeing all the killing in Gaza … might inspire him,” Shady al-Jazi stated in the telecasted interview.
Al-Jazi’s actions “reflect the extensive rage versus Israel in Jordanian society”, Sean Yom – an 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 skilled terrorist”, Yom stated. He included that the “violence might be asserted upon the dreadful images of Gaza saturating the Jordanian public sphere right now”.
Israeli and Jordanian authorities are still examining.
Is this going to lead to more attacks?
Experts state no.
“It’s certainly a one-off since Jordanian authorities have the [M