2025 Allenby Bridge shooting
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Israel Defence Forces[1]| 2025 Allenby Bridge shooting | |
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 The Allenby Bridge as seen from the west looking east into Jordan | |
| Location | Allenby Bridge Border crossing |
| Date | September 18, 2025 |
| Target | Israel Defence Forces[1] |
Attack type | Shooting |
| Weapon | Assault rifle |
| Deaths | 3 (including the perpetrator) |
| Perpetrator | Abdul 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]