Two Israeli men were killed in a shooting and stabbing attack near Allenby Crossing between the West Bank and Jordan on Thursday. The assailant was a Jordanian who had been driving a humanitarian aid truck headed for the Gaza Strip.

The perpetrator arrived at Allenby Crossing from the Jordanian side at around 3 p.m., driving a truck transporting humanitarian aid intended for the Gaza Strip. Upon his arrival, he opened fire at a number of Israelis at the crossing with a handgun, before the truck could be inspected, a preliminary military investigation found.

He then got out of the truck and, after his gun apparently jammed, stabbed the two victims repeatedly until security guards at the crossing opened fire at him, killing him.

The two victims, said by paramedics to be a man in his 60s and a man in his 20s, were pronounced dead at the scene.

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that security forces had “neutralized the terrorist” at the scene of the attack, adding that troops were carrying out scans in the area for additional suspects and briefly encircled the nearby West Bank town of Jericho. The IDF lifted its partial closure on the city after an hour.

Across the border, Jordanian government spokesman Mohammad al-Momani said Jordan was monitoring reports of a security incident at the Allenby Crossing.

The relevant Jordanian authorities were following the matter, Momani said, adding that more details would be announced once they became available.

No terror group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

According to Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, since the beginning of the war in Gaza in October 2023, nearly 10,000 trucks of aid, or over 144,000 tons, have been transferred to the Gaza Strip from Jordan using land crossings with Israel and the West Bank. The total represents some 7% of all aid deliveries.

An Israeli security source told Kan news that the deadly attack would likely interfere with Gaza aid delivery schedules, as the Israeli side of Allenby Crossing, as well as the route from the crossing to the Gaza border, would be closed for an unspecified period of time.

A source clarified to the Ynet news site, however, that aid would continue to enter Gaza via Egypt and other routes, saying it was essential that it do so, given the rapidly expanding Israeli offensive in Gaza City, which has left tens of thousands of Palestinians fleeing to the south of the Strip.

The Allenby Bridge Crossing is the West Bank’s sole crossing with Jordan.

In September 2024, three Israeli men, Yohanan Shchori, Yuri Birnbaum, and Adrian Marcelo Podzamczer, were killed in a terrorist shooting at the Allenby Crossing, carried out by a Jordanian truck driver.

The following month, in October 2024, two Israelis were wounded in a shooting near the Dead Sea carried out by terror operatives who had infiltrated from Jordan.