A former Palestinian Authority minister was killed in an Israeli strike on his home in the Gaza Strip, the official Palestinian news agency and health ministry said, AFP reports.

Youssef Salama, the 68-year-old former minister of religious affairs in the Palestinian Authority, was killed in a strike on the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Wafa news agency and the ministry reported.

Considered close to Fatah, the party of Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas, Salama served as minister between February 2005 and March 2006.