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”.Israeli warplanes carried out five raids on the Gaza Strip late Wednesday and early Thursday, Palestinian security officials said, adding that two Palestinians were wounded when the Israelis targeted a house in Shatti refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip where an official of the Palestinian militant umbrella group the Popular Resistance Committees lived.
A second Israeli air raid took place on the Jabaliya refugee camp, also in the north of the Gaza Strip. That attack targeted the home of a leader of the Ezzedine Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas which heads the current Palestinian government, the sources said. They gave no further details.
An army spokesman confirmed that aircraft had carried out two attacks “aimed at buildings used to store weapons.” Three later raids were aimed at houses belonging to Hamas militants at Rafah in the south of the Strip and in Jabaliya, the officials said.