PALI ROCKET LANDS NEXT TO ISRAELI DAYCARE CENTER

Babies Evacuated After Palestinian Rocket Lands Next to Israeli Day Care Center
A Palestinian rocket landed in a courtyard next to a crowded day care center in the southern Israeli town of Sderot on Monday morning, one of seven rockets fired at the town. At the day care center, caregivers and female soldiers tried to calm screaming children as mothers hurried in to take them home. Nearby, police sappers investigated the rocket's remnants. (AP/International Herald Tribune)

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The Sderot Parents Association decided they would not take their children to schools and day care centers beginning Tuesday, until the government changed its policy regarding ongoing Kassam rocket attacks on the western Negev town, The Jerusalem Post learned Monday.

It followed a salvo of seven Kassam rockets that landed in and around the beleaguered town Monday morning. After one of the rockets thudded into the courtyard of a day care center, soldiers scrambled to evacuate everyone inside. Twelve people, including some of the babies, suffered shock and a building was damaged.

Despite the fact that none of the 15 babies at the center were wounded, frantic parents across the city - already furious over the government’s failure to protect them and their children from the near-daily rocket fire - pulled their children out of schools on the second day of the academic year.

In total, seven Kassam rockets landed in and around the western Negev town as Sderot children started their second day of the new school year. The Islamic Jihad said they had fired nine Kuds-3 rockets, saying on their internet site that the attack was “a present for the start of the new school year.”