Babies evacuated after rocket attack

Israeli soldiers scrambled to evacuate babies from a day care centre in rocket-scarred Sderot today after a projectile fired by Palestinian militants thudded into the courtyard.

None of the 15 babies at the centre was hurt, but 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.