— 🇮🇱/🇯🇴 UPDATE: The IDF spokesperson states that soldiers are inspecting the truck of the shooter, who fatally shot three people, fearing it is rigged with explosives

According to preliminary details, the shooter exited the truck and opened fire at forces securing the crossing. The security forces eliminated the shooter.

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— 🇮🇱/🇯🇴 UPDATE: IDF forces have surround the West Bank city of Jericho after the border crossing attack

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— 🇮🇱/🇯🇴 NEW: Jordan has closed the King Hussein bridge crossing, pending investigation of the incident

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel was surrounded by a murderous ideology, led by Iran.

'They want to kill the last one of us,' he said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting. 'They do not differentiate between Left and right-leaning, religious or secular, Jews or non-Jews.'

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— 🇮🇱/🇯🇴 NEW: The shooting at the King Hussein border crossing between Israel and Jordan was carried out by an 39 year old Jordanian man, Maher al-Jazzy

As per the current information, he drove his truck from Jordan into Israel and then opened fire upon the Israeli border guards, killing 3 of them, and getting martyred.

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— 🇺🇸/🇯🇵 NEW: A U.S. Marine in Okinawa, Japan, has been accused of sexually assaulting and injuring a woman in her 20s.

This case comes amid a string of recent incidents involving U.S. servicemen, including a U.S. Air Force member indicted in March for allegedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting a minor, and a U.S. Marine arrested in May on suspicion of attempted rape resulting in injury.

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— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 NEW: Benjamin Netanyahu says he instructed the IDF to prepare to change the situation in the north

'This situation cannot continue and we are committed to returning the residents of the north safely to their homes.'

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— 🇮🇷/🇷🇺 ☦️ NEW: The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, has extended his invitation to Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church, for a 'faith-based meeting' regarding spiritual and political issues in today's changing world

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Adina Moshe, a former Israeli captive released in November, claims the Israeli military knows nothing about Hamas' underground tunnel network. She stated that after her release, Shin Bet debriefed her and asked her to draw a map of the tunnels.

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— 🇶🇦/🇺🇳/🇵🇸 NEW: The Qatar Red Crescent and UNRWA have signed an agreement to use $4.5 million from a Qatari fund to assist over 4,400 stranded Palestinian workers and patients from Gaza in the West Bank.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸/🇯🇴 NEW: Yanel Frikhat, a lawmaker in Jordan's Parliament, in an interview with Gaza-based Quds News network, praised the shooter who opened fire this morning at the Allenby Bridge crossing, killing three Israelis

'His action revitalized the Jordanian arena, This is the best response to Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. His action brings us back the glory of the 1968 Karameh operation. The Jordanian people are historically connected to the Palestinian issue.”

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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Severe disruption to internet connectivity in the Gaza Strip, mostly in the southern governorates. This is the first serious internet outage within Gaza in months. Internet providers attribute the disruptions to the ongoing aggression against Gaza.

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— 🇮🇷 Islamic Republic Air Force F-4 Phantom ll launches an Iranian-made 'Nasr' anti-ship cruise missile, known as the CM-35 in its export variant, during exercise in the Persian Gulf

The homing missile has a range of 35km with a 130kg warhead, and can be used against naval and ground targets.

It is considered a replacement for the US-made AGM-65 Maverick, the IRIAF's main air-to-ground missile for close air support since the 1970's, which has been phased out since 'Nasr' introduction years ago.

Note that the 'Nasr' (CM-35) missile can be air-launched but also from ships, trucks, etc. The air-launched variant is designated as CM-35A.

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