The IDF referred to the attempted attack on the Allenby crossing and said that an Arab terrorist attacked an IDF soldier while he was in civilian clothes at the Allenby crossing.
The soldier escaped from the terrorist's grip after he tried to strangle him with a telephone cord. Security forces arrived at the scene quickly, arrested the terrorist and he was taken for questioning. There are no casualties. The soldier was staying at the Allenby crossing as part of a routine military mission.