2025 Allenby Bridge shooting

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2025 Allenby Bridge shooting
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The Allenby Bridge as seen from the west looking east into Jordan
LocationAllenby Bridge Border crossing
DateSeptember 18, 2025
Target Flag of the Israel Defense Forces.svg Israel Defence Forces [1]
Attack type
Shooting
Weapon Assault rifle
Deaths3 (including the perpetrator)
PerpetratorAbdul Muttalib Al-Qaisi

On September 18, 2025, two Israelis were killed in a shooting attack at the Allenby Bridge border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan. [2] The shooter opened fire at Israeli personnel in the cargo terminal. Israeli security forces returned fire and killed the assailant. [3] [1] The victims were identified as 68-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Yitzhak Harosh and 20-year-old Sergeant Oran Hershko. [4] The attack occurred just over a year after the 2024 Allenby Bridge shooting, in which three Israeli border workers were killed by a Jordanian humanitarian aid truck driver at the same crossing. [5]

The attacker was identified by Jordan's foreign ministry as 57-year-old civilian Abdul Muttalib Al-Qaisi who was reported to have crossed from the Jordanian side of the terminal while driving a truck carrying humanitarian aid intended for residents of Gaza. Al-Qaisi began working to deliver aid to Gaza three months before the attack. [4]

Israel indefinitely closed the bridge on September 24, days after reopening it following the shooting. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Two soldiers killed in shooting attack". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 18 September 2025.
  2. Staff, J. N. S. (2025-09-18). "One killed, one wounded in terrorist shooting at Israel's Allenby Crossing with Jordan". JNS.org. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  3. ברוך, עוזי. "שני נרצחים בפיגוע ירי במעבר אלנבי, המחבל חייל ירדני שנהג במשאית סיוע". ערוץ 7 (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  4. 1 2 "Two shot dead in attack near West Bank-Jordan crossing, Israeli military says". BBC News. September 18, 2025. Retrieved October 8, 2025.
  5. "Three Israeli civilians shot dead at Allenby Crossing between West Bank and Jordan". CNN. 2024-09-08. Retrieved 2025-09-18.
  6. "Israel to close West Bank crossing to Jordan indefinitely". Reuters. Retrieved 27 September 2025.