On 8 September, a retired soldier opened fire at the King Hussein Bridge - referred to as the Karama Bridge by Palestinians and the Allenby Bridge by Israelis - connecting Jordan to the occupied West Bank. The attacker killed three Israeli guards before being shot dead.

A gunman was dead and three Jordanian policemen injured after a shooting near the heavily fortified Israeli embassy in the capital Amman in Sunday's early hours, a security source and state media said.

Jordan’s security forces shot and killed a gunman in the capital Amman in an exchange of fire on Sunday morning, the government's spokesman said. The incident took place near the Israeli embassy in the Rabieh neighbourhood,

Jordan is a close Western ally that made peace with Israel in 1994. But Israel’s devastating offensive in the Gaza Strip has strained relations