The Palestinian General Administration of Borders and Crossings announced today, Monday, the gradual reopening of the Karameh border crossing between Palestine and Jordan to commercial truck traffic, after a two-week closure.
The official Palestinian news agency (WAFA) quoted the director of the General Administration of Crossings and Borders, Nazmi Muhanna, as saying that “the resumption of commercial movement at the crossing is taking place gradually, to ensure coordination and the transfer of goods through it.”
He stressed that the step comes within the framework of measures aimed at contributing to the continuation of commercial movement at the crossing, also known as the Allenby Crossing, located between Jordan and the West Bank.
The crossing was closed on September 8 after three Israeli security personnel were killed by a Jordanian citizen, and the Israeli army declared the crossing a closed military zone immediately after the incident.
The occupation forces shot the Jordanian citizen who carried out the operation, which led to his martyrdom. The occupation authorities handed over his body to Jordan on September 17.
The commercial area of the Allenby Crossing is designated for trucks loaded with goods or those that have unloaded their cargo, where drivers line up to arrange papers and procedures for their exit from Jordan or their return to the Kingdom with the Israeli crossing employees.