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Gunman kills 3 Israelis at West Bank crossing as Gaza war rages
A truck driver shot dead three Israeli guards at a border crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan Sunday before being "eliminated", Israel's military said, as it pounded Hamas targets in Gaza.
The rare attack at the Allenby Bridge crossing comes amid soaring violence in the West Bank with major Israeli raids and attacks by Palestinians, and against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas Gaza war, now in its 12th month.
The military said "a terrorist" reached crossing area, also known as the King Hussein Bridge, in a truck "from Jordan".
The driver "exited the truck and opened fire at Israeli security forces operating at the bridge", a military statement said.
"Three Israeli civilians were pronounced dead as a result of the attack," it said, later clarifying to AFP that they were "security guards" and not in the army or police.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the assailant as a "despicable terrorist" inspired by "a murderous ideology" which he said was fuelled by Iran.
Hamas praised the attack but did not claim responsibility for it.
The Palestinian militant group said in a statement that the shooting "affirms the Arab peoples' rejection of the (Israeli) occupation, its crimes, and its ambitions in Palestine and Jordan".
Jordan's interior ministry said authorities were "investigating the incident".
The crossing, in the Jordan Valley, is the only international gateway for Palestinians from the West Bank that does not require entering Israel, which has occupied the territory since 1967.
Private security guards operate the crossing alongside Israeli security forces.
- Soaring West Bank violence -
Violence in the West Bank has surged alongside the war in Gaza which began after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.
Israel's military on August 28 launched simultaneous raids across several cities and refugee camps in the northern West Bank, killing at least 36 Palestinians, according to the Ramallah-based Palestinian health ministry.
The military said it killed 35 militants. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed at least 14 of the fatalities.
Since October 7, Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 662 Palestinians in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
At least 23 Israelis, including members of the security forces, have been killed in Palestinian attacks during the same period, Israeli officials say.
The Hamas October 7 attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,205 people, mostly civilians including some hostages killed in captivity, official Israeli figures show.
Militants seized 251 hostages on October 7, 97 of whom are still held in Gaza, including 33 the Israeli military says are dead.
Israel's retaliatory offensive in Gaza has so far killed at least 40,972 people, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory.
The UN human rights office says most of the dead are women and children.
On Sunday, Israel carried out several air strikes in Gaza as prospects remained dim for a ceasefire to secure the release of remaining hostages held there.
An Israeli missile killed five people in Jabalia refugee camp, and overnight shelling hit parts of central Gaza, the territory's civil defence agency reported.
Witnesses told AFP they saw air strikes and fire from a military helicopter in Gaza city.
Israeli military said it had struck around "25 Hamas targets" across Gaza over the past day.
- No respite for Gazans -
There has been no respite for the 2.4 million Palestinians living in Gaza, almost all of whom have been displaced at least once.
"Moving from one area to another is distressing because there is no safe place in Gaza," said Raeed Hamad, 51, a cancer patient from the southern city of Khan Yunis.
"We are displaced under heavy bombardments... I have lost weight and I'm exhausted."
Hamas is demanding a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza as part of a ceasefire, but Israel insists troops must remain along the Gaza-Egypt border.
The United States, Qatar and Egypt have all been mediating in efforts to forge a ceasefire.
Israeli protesters numbering in the tens of thousands have mounted pressure on the government, demanding a deal that would mean the release of hostages.
Late Saturday, mass protests were again held in Tel Aviv and some other cities. Organisers said more than 500,000 people took part.
Anger and grief spiked across Israel after the military recovered bodies of six hostages from a Gaza tunnel last month.
"We must demand that no one forgets the hostages, no one ignores them, no one leaves them to die," said Andrey Kozlov, one of the scores of hostages freed during the one-week truce in November.
"Their time is running out. We see it, we feel it. Bring them back home now."
International pressure to end the war has also grown and intensified further after Friday's fatal shooting in the West Bank of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was demonstrating against Israeli settlements in the territory.
Her family, Turkey and the UN rights office all said Israeli forces killed her. Israel's military said the incident is under review.
T.Vitorino--PC