Israel sealed off the West Bank city of Hebron after Palestinian gunmen killed a 10-month-old Jewish girl. Shalhevet Pass was with her father, Yitzhak, when Palestinian snipers opened fire on the Avraham Avinu neighborhood from the adjacent Palestinian hill of Abu Sneineh.
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