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Israel returned the bodies of two Jordanians who had crossed the border between Jordan and the occupied West Bank in October and shot at Israeli soldiers, before Israeli forces opened fire and killed them.

Amman announced on Wednesday that they had received the bodies of the Jordanians.

"In coordination with the concerned authorities in the Kingdom, the bodies were received through the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge and handed over to their families for burial in the Kingdom" the official Jordanian Petra news agency said, quoting the Jordanian foreign ministry spokesman, Sufian al-Qudah.

The Jordanians had wounded three soldiers in the attack, which came amid Israel's brutal war on the besieged Gaza Strip, which has so far killed over 44,500 Palestinians and completely devastated the territory.

This Israeli army also issued a statement on the return of the bodies, stating that "based on the directives of the political level, the bodies of the two terrorists who infiltrated from Jordan and carried out a terrorist operation south of the Dead Sea on October 18, 2024 were returned."

The two Jordanians involved in the attack have been identified as Hussam Abu Ghazaleh and Amer Kawas.

According to local Arabic media reports, the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan announced that the two young men were members of the group but had acted individually.

The group has regularly been organising protest marches since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza.

Jordanian security forces in November killed a man after he opened fire on security personnel in the proximity of the Israeli embassy in Amman, with three General Security officers wounded in the operation, according to official sources.

Jordan has had a peace treaty with Israel since 1994, but relations have remained cold at an official level and are generally rejected by the Jordanian public, with anger among citizens simmering as Israel continues its war on the Strip.