A Qassam rocket was launched Monday from the Gaza Strip and directly hit a house in Kibbutz Karmiah in the western Negev, penetrating through the roof before exploding in an 8-mont-old baby girl's bedroom.

When the "Color Red" warning sounded, the mother took the girl from her crib and ran with her to a safer part of the house, since there are no reinforced "safe rooms" in the kibbutz.

Three of the family members- the grandmother, the mother, and the baby -were taken to the hospital for medical assistance.

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Kibbutz Karmiah said it would try to find temporary housing for the family.

Late Monday, Palestinian militants fired three mortars from the northern Gaza Strip into Israel. The mortars landed in an open area near the Kisufim junction in the western Negev. There were no casualties in the attack.

On Sunday, a woman student sustained light wounds to her hand when a Qassam rocket fired by Gaza militants hit the entrance to the Sapir College near the western Negev town of Sderot.

Several minutes later, another rocket landed near a school in the town itself, causing damage to property, but no injuries. The militant Islamic Jihad movement claimed responsibility for the rocket fire.

A very short time later, an Israel Air Force strike killed two Jihad members in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, witnesses and hospital officials said.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the cabinet Sunday that he does not want to battle the High Court of Justice over its ruling that the government must reinforce all schools in the Gaza area, to protect them from rocket fire, by the beginning of the next school year.

"I don't want to fight the High Court of Justice, the court is an authority that I respect," said Olmert during the weekly cabinet meeting.