Israeli woman killed by rocket fired from Gaza by militants

By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
Published: 22 May 2007

An Israeli woman civilian was killed by a Qassam rocket last night after Israeli air strikes killed five Palestinians - including all four members of an Islamic Jihad rocket launching cell.

The woman was three metres from a car hit by a rocket near the commercial centre of the southern border town of Sderot. Her death was the first in the current spate of rocket attacks by Gaza militants on Israel. One man was injured. continue...