GAZA CITY - Israeli warplanes raided the Gaza Strip overnight hours after an
Israeli woman was killed by Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza, with the Jewish
state vowing to retaliate against militants who would "pay a heavy price".
Palestinian youth watch as Israeli soldiers patrol the
streets of the old neighborhood of the West Bank Palestinian town of
Hebron. Israeli warplanes raided the Gaza Strip overnight hours after an
Israeli woman was killed by Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza, with the
Jewish state vowing to retaliate against militants who would "pay a heavy
price". [AFP]
 |
Fatima Slutsker, a 57-year-old
mother of two, died of wounds sustained when a rocket struck early Wednesday in
a street in the town of Sderot, five kilometers (three miles) north of Gaza,
police and medics said.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ordered the army to continue its lethal four-month
offensive in the coastal strip following the death.
"Olmert has been updated and spoke on the phone with Defense Minister Amir
Peretz, and instructed him to continue to act against Qassam rocket fire and
infrastructure," Olmert's spokeswoman Miri Eisin told reporters in Los Angeles.
Peretz vowed that Gaza militants would "pay a heavy price" for the strike.
| 1 | 2 |  |
