Palestinian woman and her 2-year-old child killed in Israeli airstrike

<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Gaza:</strong> An Israeli airstrike on a home in Gaza killed a pregnant Palestinian woman and her 2-year-old child Sunday, a Gazan official said, as weeks of violence between Israel and Palestinians escalated from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p></div></div></div><p>&nbsp;</p>