Palestinian gunmen shot and killed an Israeli on a West Bank road outside Jerusalem. The 35-year-old man died after being shot in the head by gunmen firing from the Arab town of Beit Jalla. The motorist had been driving on a road linking Jerusalem with settlements in the West Bank.
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