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Israeli Soldiers Kill Suspected Terrorist

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JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israeli soldiers shot and killed a suspected terrorist in the Jordan Valley, which Palestinians are claiming as part of their future state.

The incident took place Monday morning at the Allenby Bridge border crossing connecting Israel and Jordan.

A statement from the Israel Defense Forces Spokesman's Office said the terrorist attacked a soldier and tried to wrestle his rifle from him.

"A short while ago a Palestinian attempted to seize the weapon of a soldier at the Allenby Bridge crossing from Jordan. In response, the forces at the scene opened fire toward the suspect," the statement read.

The Palestinian Authority's official Ma'an News Agency identified him as Raed Alaa Addin Zieter, 38, a resident of Nablus (biblical Shechem) and said he'd left the "occupied West Bank" in 2011 and never returned.

The P.A. later identified the man as holding a Jordanian passport and working as a civil court judge in Jordan, The Times of Israel reported.

According to the report, the P.A. is demanding an international investigation into the incident.

Authorities closed the crossing to investigate the incident.

According to Ofer Lefler, the Israeli spokesman for the Israel Airports Authority, which oversees border crossings, the assailant planned to carry out a terror attack in Israel.

The Palestinian Authority claims the Jordan Valley, where today's incident occurred, for its future state. The P.A. said it would agree to international, not Israeli forces, at the border with Jordan, but Israel says no way.

International peacekeeping forces could not stop Hezbollah from expanding its terror infrastructure south of the Litani River, though that was a condition of the U.N.-brokered ceasefire that ended the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006.

Some say Jordan's King Abdullah II also wants the IDF at its border with Israel as it's proven the most reliable for protecting Jordanian interests.

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