Palestinian woman killed in Israeli raid on her home in Gaza

One Palestinian woman was killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted her home in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Tuesday, the spokesman of the Gaza health ministry told Al-Jazeera in an interview.

According to Ashraf Qedra, the health ministry spokesman, the total deaths resulting from the Israeli raids on Gaza since Monday have reached 22, including nine children and the woman who was killed in an attack in the early hours of Tuesday on her residential home in Al Shati refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Her children have been wounded in the attack, but their condition is stable, he explained.

He added that 106 have been wounded in the air strikes, some of them in critical condition.

Meanwhile, the military wing of Hamas movement, the de facto ruler of Gaza, said it carried out rocket attacks on Ashkelon, located 13 km north of Gaza, later on Tuesday in retaliation for the night raid that killed the Palestinian woman.