How is soumya dead?

This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 December 2021….

Who killed Soumya Santosh?

Soumya was among those killed in rocket attack by a Palestinian Islamist group on Tuesday. The 30-year-old Indian woman hailed from Idukki district in Kerala. Soumya was working as a caretaker to an elderly woman at a house in the Ashkelon. According to her family, Soumya was living in Israel for the last seven years.

Who is Soumya Santosh?

Soumya Santosh, 30, who hailed from Kerala’s Idukki district, worked as a caregiver attending to an old woman at a house in the southern Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon. She has a nine-year-old son whom she had left with her husband in Kerala.

What happened at Ashkelon?

On 1–2 March 2008, rockets fired by Hamas from the Gaza Strip (some of them Grad rockets) hit Ashkelon, wounding seven, and causing property damage.

How many Keralites work in Israel?

Though official estimates suggest that about 11,000 Keralites are employed as caregivers across Israel, there appears to be a dearth of accurate data to confirm the same.

What was Soumya Santosh doing in Israel?

Thirty-two-year-old Soumya Santosh, who hailed from Idukki, had been working in Israel for the last seven years. She was employed as a house help at a Jewish household in Ashkelon at the time of her death.

What is Ashkelon called today?

Ashqelon, also spelled Ashkelon, classical Ascalon, or Askalon, city on the coastal plain of Palestine, since 1948 in southwestern Israel. The modern city lies 12 miles (19 km) north of Gaza and 1.25 miles (2 km) east-northeast of the ancient city site.

What does Ashkelon mean in the Bible?

1. An ancient city of southwest Palestine on the Mediterranean Sea. Inhabited as early as the third millennium bc , it was a seat of worship for the goddess Astarte. 1. 6.