Kerala woman killed in Gaza air strikes in Israel ISRAEL, PALESTINE ON BRINK OF FULL-SCALE WAR
JERUSALEM: A 30-year-old Indian woman working in Israel was killed in a rocket attack by Palestinian militants from Gaza, officials said.
Soumya Santosh, who came from Kerala’s Idukki district, worked as a caregiver attending to an old woman at a house in the southern Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon.
Ashkelon, which borders the Gaza Strip, has come under a massive fire from the Palestinian militants.
The Indian woman was said to be living in Israel for the last seven years. She has a nine-yearold son whom she had left with her husband in Kerala.
Her 80-year-old elderly charge is said to have survived the direct hit on the house and is hospitalised in a serious condition, local media reports said.
Israel’s ambassador to India
Ron Malka on Tuesday took to Twitter to condole the Indian woman’s death. “On behalf of the state of Israel, I convey heartfelt condolences to the family of Ms. Soumya Santosh,” he said.
According to Soumya’s family in Kerala, she was talking to her husband Santhosh over a video call in the evening when the incident took place.
GAZA: Rockets streamed out of Gaza and Israel pounded the territory with airstrikes on Wednesday as the most severe outbreak of violence since a 2014 war took on many hallmarks of that devastating 50-day conflict, with dozens killed and no resolution in sight.
Palls of gray smoke rose in Gaza, as Israeli airstrikes levelled two apartment towers and hammered the militant group’s multiple security installations, destroying the central police compound. The death toll in Gaza rose to 48 Palestinians, including 14 children and three women, with more than 300 people wounded.