The King Hussein Bridge at the Al-Karama border crossing between Jordan and Palestine, where a Jordanian truck driver shot dead three Israeli Occupation personnel. Photo: AFP/Getty Images.
Palestinian resistance factions praised the operation carried out by a Jordanian truck driver on Sunday, September 8, who shot dead three Israeli security personnel near the occupied West Bank’s border with Jordan.
“The Karama crossing operation is an affirmation of the Arab peoples’ rejection of the occupation, its crimes, and its ambitions in Palestine and Jordan, and their strong support for our people and their valiant resistance in defense of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa,” Palestinian movement Hamas said in a statement.
Member of Hamas’ political bureau, Fathi Hammad, referred to the shooting as “a major slap in the face to the Zionist security and military system, and conclusive evidence of the fragility of the Zionist entity in the face of the will of the heroes.”
He called it a “natural response” to the genocide in Gaza, and called “Arab and Islamic youth to escalate the confrontation with the criminal Zionist enemy.”
Hammad also saluted the man behind the operation, who was shot dead by Israeli security forces near the King Hussein Bridge.
“We commend the heroic operation carried out this morning by one of Jordan’s heroes at the Karama crossing between Jordan and our occupied lands. This heroic act is the most genuine expression of the sentiments of the Jordanian people, as well as the Arab and Muslim nations,” the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement said in a statement on 8 September.
“Such heroic operations are the only response understood by the American administration, the partner of the criminal entity in the genocide war it wages against our people in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip,” the statement added.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said the operation “is a painful blow to Zionist security and a fiery message from a Jordanian youth to the crimes of the occupation,” calling it “legitimate” and “heroic.”
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The Democratic Front for the Liberation Palestine (DFLP) said the operation holds significance “that the fascist occupying state must understand,” calling it “one episode in a broad series of reactions [to Israeli crimes] that will not cease.”
People in Jordan and the occupied West Bank took to the streets, handing out sweets to celebrate the Jordanian resistance operation.
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Meanwhile, during Israel’s weekly cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the event on “a murderous ideology led by Iran’s axis of evil.”
“It’s a hard day,” he said. “A despicable terrorist murdered three of our citizens in cold blood at the Allenby Bridge. On behalf of the government, I send my condolences to the families of the victims … We are surrounded by a murderous ideology led by Iran’s axis of evil. In recent days, despicable terrorists have murdered six of our hostages in cold blood and three Israeli police officers. The killers do not distinguish between us, they want to murder us all, until the last one; right and left, secular and religious, Jews and non-Jews.”
Three Israeli security guards were shot and killed at the Allenby Bridge (Al-Karama) border crossing between Jordan and the occupied West Bank on Sunday morning.
The man who carried out the shooting, a truck driver from Jordan, arrived at the terminal and opened fire at the security guards from close range with a pistol he had hidden away, shooting them in the head, before he was himself shot and killed by border security guards. He has been identified by Israeli media as 39-year-old Maher al-Jazi.
