The incident takes place in a commercial cargo area where Jordanian trucks offload cargo entering the occupied West Bank.
Israel has closed all border crossings with Jordan after an armed man killed three border guards at King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge border crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan.
The Israeli military said the attacker arrived at the crossing from the adjoining al-Karameh town in Jordan in a truck on Sunday morning and opened fire at the border guards.
“Three Israeli civilians were pronounced dead as a result of the attack,” the military said, later clarifying to the news agency AFP that they were “working as security guards” and were not part of the army or police forces.
Private security guards operate the crossing alongside Israeli security forces stationed there.
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