A 30-year-old Indian woman in Israel has been killed in a rocket attack by Palestinian militants from Gaza, PTI has reported quoting officials.
Soumya Santosh, who hailed 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.
The Indian woman was said to be living in Israel for the last seven years. She has a nine-year-old son whom she had left with her husband in Kerala.
Ashkelon, which borders the Gaza Strip, has come under a massive fire from the Palestinian militants.
Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes at Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets in the coastal strip.