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Gunmen shoot dead three Israelis Sun 19 October, 2003 19:28 BST By Allyn Fisher-Ilan JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Gunmen have killed three Israelis and wounded at least one in an ambush on a West Bank road north of the city of Ramallah, an Israeli security source says. The attack, one of a series of violent incidents at the weekend that dealt fresh blows to a stalled U.S.-backed peace "road map", occurred in the Palestinian village of Ein Yabrud, near the Jewish settlement of Ofra, on Sunday. Earlier on Sunday, Israel called up several hundred reserve soldiers to serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip because of rising violence and fears of a new wave of Palestinian suicide bombings. Asked about the call-up, Israeli army spokeswoman Ruth Yaron told Israel Radio: "We are facing another wave of terror." Yaron said the reservists would plug gaps caused by cuts in defence spending.