Palestinian resistance factions have hailed as “heroic” a retaliatory shooting operation near the Allenby Bridge on the border between the occupied West Bank and Jordan in response to Israel’s unending genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip.

In a statement on Sunday, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement said, “This heroic act is the most genuine expression of the sentiments of the Jordanian people, as well as the Arab and Muslim nations, towards the brutal massacres committed by the enemy.”

It said “such heroic operations are the only response understood” by the United States which has been a partner in Israeli crimes in Gaza and the West Bank, Press TV reported. 

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas also described the heroic operation as a “natural response” to the crimes committed by the occupying regime against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

It also noted that the shooting operation “reaffirms the Arab peoples' rejection of the occupation, its crimes, and its ambitions in Palestine and Jordan,” adding that it confirms their strong support for the Palestinian resistance.

Hamas further called on all Muslims to rise against Israel’s aggression against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, as well as the regime’s “vicious assault” on the civilians in the West Bank.

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) also said the “heroic operation” confirms that the crimes and massacres committed by the Israeli “fascist” regime against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have major consequences.

It further warned that the shooting operation was “just one episode in a broader series of reactions, which will not cease until the occupying regime withdraws from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the legitimate national rights of Palestinian people for freedom, independence, and return are recognized.”

On Sunday, at least three Israeli settlers in their 50s were killed in a retaliatory shooting operation near the Allenby Bridge on the border between the West Bank and Jordan.

The Israeli military asserted that the assailant arrived at the terminal in a truck from Jordan and opened fire at workers at the crossing.

He was then shot dead by security forces, the army added.

Israeli and Jordanian authorities have both announced that the Allenby Bridge crossing has been closed until further notice following the deadly retaliatory shooting incident there.

Since Israel unleashed a war on Gaza in early October last year, casualties have been rising in the West Bank as a result of intensified near-daily Israeli raids into villages and cities in the occupied territories.

At least 692 Palestinians, including 158 minors, have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces or extremist Jewish settlers since the war began. More than 5,700 Palestinians have been wounded and at least 10,400 detained.

About 41,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have also been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip during the regime’s genocidal war.