A 55-YEAR-OLD Palestinian woman was killed yesterday and her son injured in an explosion at the West Bank farm of a fugitive Islamic militant.

A 55-year-old Palestinian woman was killed today and her son injured in an explosion at the West Bank farm of a fugitive Islamic militant.

ISRAELI troops blew up two apartment buildings in a Gaza Strip refugee camp yesterday, just hours after undercover forces killed the brother of a radical Palestinian leader during an arrest raid in the West Bank.