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WORLD NEWS Monday 9 SepteMber 2024
Shooting attack at the West Bank-Jordan border crossing kills 3 Israelis

By MAHMOUD ILLEAN and baliya refugee camp.
NATALIE MELZER There was no immediate
Associated Press comment from the Israeli
ALLENBY CROSSING, West military. The army says it tries
Bank (AP) — Three Israelis to avoid harming civilians
were shot and killed Sun- and only targets militants.
day at the border crossing Another Israeli strike hit
between the West Bank the Eid family home in the
and Jordan, Israeli officials Nuseirat refugee camp and
said, in what appeared to killed at least two girls, ac-
be an attack linked to the cording to an Associated
11-month-old war in Gaza. Press journalist who counted
Israel's military said the gun- the bodies and witnesses.
man approached the Al- Paltel, one of the territory's
lenby Bridge Crossing from main telecom providers,
the Jordanian side in a truck said all household internet
and opened fire at Israeli in central and southern
security forces, who killed Gaza was down because
him in a shootout. Israel's of ongoing attacks.
Magen David Adom rescue Gaza's Health Ministry says
service said the three Israelis over 40,000 Palestinians
were men in their 50s and have been killed in Gaza
the military said they were since the war began. It
civilians. Israeli police stand guard near the site of a deadly shooting attack where Israeli officials say three does not differentiate be-
Relatives identified the people were shot and killed at the Allenby Bridge Crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, tween fighters and civilians
Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024.
gunman as Maher al-Jazi, Associated Press in its count. The war has
a retired Jordanian soldier caused vast destruction
from Athroh, a town in the slogans in support of al-Jazi would reopen on Monday. ican-Turkish woman shot and displaced around 90%
impoverished Maan area. and burning the Israeli flag. Israeli Prime Minister Ben- dead on Friday in the West of Gaza's population of 2.3
Jordan's state-run Petra "We bless this heroic op- jamin Netanyahu con- Bank. She had been dem- million, often multiple times.
News Agency said he was eration carried out by this demned the attack and onstrating against Israeli set- Hamas-led militants killed
transporting goods to the noble Jordanian hero," said linked it to Israel's larger tlements. The White House some 1,200 people, most-
West Bank. The interior min- Murad Adaileh, head of the conflict with Iran and allied has said it was "deeply ly civilians, in their Oct. 7
istry said that, based on ini- local Muslim Brotherhood militant groups, including disturbed," while her fam- attack. They abducted
tial investigation results, the Party. Hamas in Gaza and Hezbol- ily seeks an independent another 250 and are still
incident was an individual The Allenby crossing over lah in Lebanon. investigation. Her body holding around 100 after
act. the Jordan River, also The Israeli-occupied West remained at a hospital in releasing most of the rest in
Jordan was investigating. known as the King Hussein Bank has seen a surge of Nablus. exchange for Palestinians
The Western-allied Arab Bridge, is mainly used by violence since Hamas' Oct. In Gaza, an Israeli airstrike imprisoned by Israel during
country made peace with Palestinians and tourists. 7 attack out of Gaza trig- killed five people, includ- a weeklong cease-fire last
Israel in 1994 but is deeply The crossing has seen few gered the war there. Israel ing two women, two chil- November. Around a third
critical of its policies toward security incidents, but in has launched near-daily dren and a senior official of the remaining hostages
the Palestinians. Jordan has 2014 Israeli security guards military arrest raids into in the Civil Defense — first are believed to be dead.
a large Palestinian popula- shot and killed a Jordanian dense Palestinian residen- responders who operate The United States, Qa-
tion and has seen mass pro- judge who they said had at- tial areas, and there has under the Hamas-run gov- tar and Egypt have spent
tests against Israel over the tacked them. been a rise in Israeli settler ernment. The Civil Defense months trying to broker a
war in Gaza. The crossing was closed, violence and Palestinian at- said the strike targeted the cease-fire and the return of
Hundreds of Jordanians and Israel announced the tacks on Israelis. home of its deputy director the hostages, but the ne-
marched in Amman to cel- closure of its land crossings Loved ones mourned Ay- for northern Gaza, Moham- gotiations have repeatedly
ebrate the attack, chanting with Jordan. It later said all senur Ezgi Eygi, an Amer- med Morsi, in the urban Ja- bogged down.q

Vaccinations against mpox in Congo

will begin next month, authorities say

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE batch of mpox vaccines mpox outbreaks in Congo,
Associated Press arrived in the capital of the epicenter of the glob-
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo, the center of the al health emergency. The
A vaccination campaign outbreak. The 100,000 dos- European Union countries
against mpox in Congo will es of the JYNNEOS vaccine, pledged to donate more
begin Oct. 2, authorities manufactured by the Dan- than 500,000 others, but the
said Saturday, with workers ish company Bavarian Nor- timeline for their delivery re-
focusing on the three most dic, were donated by the mained unclear.
affected provinces first. European Union through Since the start of 2024,
Adults in Equateur, South HERA, the bloc's agency there have been 5,549 con-
Kivu and Sankuru provinces for health emergencies. firmed mpox cases across Officials check Mpox vaccine MVA-BN vaccine, manufactured
will be vaccinated first, Cris Another 100,000 were de- the continent, with 643 as- by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic, at the airport in
Kacita Osako, coordina- livered on Saturday. sociated deaths, repre- Kinshasa, Congo, Sept. 5, 2024. Associated Press
tor of Congo's Monkeypox The 200,000 doses are just senting a sharp escalation
Response Committee, told a fraction of the 3 million in both infections and fatal- constituted 91% of the total the second most affected
The Associated Press. doses authorities have said ities compared to previous number. Most mpox infec- country, are in children un-

Earlier this week, the first are needed to end the years. The cases in Congo tions in Congo and Burundi, der age 15. q