An Israeli man was killed and his pregnant wife injured in a shooting attack in the West Bank last Friday. Shalom Har-Melech, 25, died after Palestinian gunmen waiting in ambush sprayed his car with bullets near Ramallah. His wife Limor, 24, who was seven months pregnant, was moderately injured and was taken to a hospital, where a baby girl was delivered by Caesarean section.
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