8/9/2024–|Last update: 8/9/202407:30 PM (Makkah Time)
Military and strategic expert, Colonel Hatem Al-Falahi, confirmed that the operation carried out near the Allenby Crossing (King Hussein Bridge) between Jordan and the West Bank constitutes a major security and intelligence breach for the Israeli occupation, and stressed its importance in terms of timing and geographical location.
Three Israelis were killed in a shooting near the King Hussein Bridge crossing, in an operation that is the first of its kind since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7 and the escalation of attacks in the occupied West Bank.
Colonel Al-Falahi said – in an analysis of the military scene in Gaza and the West Bank – that despite all the security arrangements and the mobilization that Israel has made throughout the past period, the perpetrator – a Jordanian truck driver – was able to carry out the operation, indicating that such individual operations are difficult to control, neither by Jordan nor by the Israeli occupation.
He explained that the planning of the operation that was carried out near the King Hussein Bridge was carried out individually and could not be detected by the security services. This is the same thing that happened recently at a security checkpoint east of the Tarqumiya military crossing west of Hebron in the southern West Bank, which resulted in the killing of 3 members of the occupation police and Israeli border guard forces.
In Colonel Al-Falahi’s view, the operation has its implications in terms of timing and location. In terms of timing, the Israeli army is going through a very big dilemma, as evidenced by the fact that the Israeli security services have submitted recommendations calling for a halt to the war in the Gaza Strip and the rebuilding and restructuring of the army so that it can confront the threats coming from various fronts, the northern front with Lebanon, and the expected Iranian strike.
In terms of the significance of the place, the area where the operation was carried out had been relatively quiet throughout the past period, and thus the strike this time came from a front that Israel and its army had not expected. Colonel Al-Falahi stated that semi-integrated sectors are operating in this area, and it concerns the Central Command of the Israeli army, which consists of the 877th Division, the 340th Division, and the 98th Division, which is fighting in Gaza.
Colonel Al-Falahi expects other operations against the Israeli occupation to take place in the coming period, and he said that the security services in Israel expect such operations to continue, in light of the continuation of their war on the Gaza Strip and the massacres they are committing there.
It is noteworthy that the Israeli Broadcasting Authority had reported – quoting security officials – that the perpetrator of the shooting at the crossing was a Jordanian citizen named Maher Al-Jazi, and the Israeli army said that it had shot him, which led to his death.