The fragile Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire was tested when an Israeli security officer was killed and his bodyguard wounded in what appeared to be a planned Palestinian assassination on a West Bank road. The wounded bodyguard killed the Palestinian gunman, Israeli security sources said.
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