Israel-Jordan Border Attack and UN Gaza Genocide Report
Israel-Jordan Border Attack Sparks Tensions Amid UN Genocide Report on Gaza
No group has claimed responsibility for what Israel condemned as a “terror attack” at the Allenby Bridge crossing — the only gateway for Palestinians traveling from the Israeli-occupied West Bank to Jordan.
According to Jordan’s foreign ministry, the suspected attacker was identified as Abdul Mutalib al-Qaisi, a 56-year-old civilian who had recently been working as a driver delivering aid to Gaza.
Israel’s ambulance service confirmed that two Israelis died of their injuries, while security personnel shot the attacker dead.
Jordan has launched an investigation, describing the shooting as a threat to its humanitarian role in Gaza. In response, Israeli military chief of staff Eyal Zamir advised halting aid deliveries from Jordan until stricter screening procedures for Jordanian drivers are put in place.
The incident comes weeks after Hamas claimed responsibility for a deadly shooting near Jerusalem and nearly a year after a Jordanian gunman killed three Israelis at the same crossing in September 2024.
Meanwhile, global attention is also focused on a new United Nations inquiry, which this week concluded that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.
What the UN Inquiry Found
After nearly two years of gathering evidence through interviews, satellite imagery, and open-source documents, the UN Commission of Inquiry stated that Israeli authorities and security forces showed “genocidal intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.”
The report accuses Israel of committing four of the five internationally recognized genocidal acts:
Killing Palestinians
Causing serious physical or mental harm
Inflicting living conditions designed to destroy the population
Imposing measures to prevent births
It cites mass killings, blocked humanitarian aid, forced displacement, and destruction of health care facilities — including a fertility clinic — as evidence.
Statements by Israeli leaders were also highlighted. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s November 2023 letter to soldiers was described as invoking a “holy war of total annihilation,” while former defense minister Yoav Gallant’s call for a complete Gaza siege and President Isaac Herzog’s remarks that “an entire nation” is responsible were cited as proof of genocidal intent.
Herzog rejected the conclusions, saying his words were misinterpreted. Netanyahu and Gallant have not responded.
The findings echo concerns previously raised by genocide scholars and human rights groups, though Israel has dismissed the UN’s conclusions as biased and unsubstantiated.
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