A Palestinian boy inspects the damage after an Israeli retaliatory air strike demolished the house of a Palestinian family on October 11, 2015 in the Zeitun sector south of Gaza City. A pregnant Palestinian mother and her toddler daughter were killed in the air strike.(Photo: MAHMUD HAMS, AFP/Getty Images)
An Israeli airstrike on a home in Gaza killed a pregnant Palestinian woman and her 2-year-old child Sunday, an official in Gaza said.
Israel's military said it carried out airstrikes in Gaza targeting Hamas weapons manufacturing facilities in response to renewed rocket fire toward Israel, the Associated Press reported.
Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Kidra said 30-year-old Noor Hassan and her toddler daughter were killed in a strike. He said four other people were wounded, including Hassan's husband and son, the AP reported.
In the West Bank, a Palestinian woman was critically injured after a bomb detonated in her car after she left the vehicle, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. He said a police officer was slightly injured in the attack. It was the first use of explosives in the current round of violence, which has mainly been confined to stabbings and shootings.
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Saturday, two knife-wielding Palestinians were shot dead by police during separate attacks in Jerusalem and two others died during demonstrations near a Gaza border fence.
Recent days have seen a series of attacks by young Palestinians wielding household items like kitchen knives, screwdrivers and even a vegetable peeler. They had no known links to armed groups and have seemingly targeted Israeli soldiers and civilians at random, complicating efforts to predict or prevent the attacks, according to the AP.
New polling released by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey showed rising discontent among Palestinians. With no progress toward creating an independent state, two-thirds of Palestinians are demanding that leader Mahmoud Abbas step down and a clear majority now favors a return to an armed rebellion or intifada, the last one leaving 3,000 Palestinians and 1,000 Israelis dead over five years before it ended in 2005.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke separately Saturday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Abbas, expressing concerns over the recent wave of violence and offering assistance in restoring calm, the State Department said.
Contributing: Gregg Zoroya
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