“Israeli” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented on the shooting incident at the Allenby crossing.

"This is a difficult day,” Netanyahu stated. “We are surrounded by a murderous ideology led by the Iranian axis of evil. In recent days, despicable terrorists have cold-bloodedly killed six of our captives and three Israeli police officers. The killers do not distinguish; they want to kill us all—right and left, secular and religious, Jews and non-Jews."