Left-wing activists fired eggs and vegetables at the Gaza Strip on Thursday, to protest against the government's inability to deal with the Qassam rocket threat.

The activists used home-made launchers constructed from recycled materials in order to fire the produce.

Last Monday, a Qassam rocket launched 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-month-old baby girl's bedroom.

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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.

That attack came a day after 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.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the cabinet last week 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. Olmert has criticized the court ruling, however, saying only the government can decide what to protect, and when.