The Israeli army banned civilians and tourists from entering Palestinian areas in the West Bank following the upsurge in violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. An Israeli toddler was seriously burned and her mother and another passenger lightly wounded in a firebomb attack on an Israeli car in Jericho, one of several firebomb attacks in the territories.
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