High schools in the Qassam-stricken city of Sderot launched an open strike on Tuesday morning in protest at ongoing rocket attacks from the northern Gaza Strip.
Parents of elementary pupils threatened to keep their children at home as of Wednesday morning if the attacks continued.
Parents, as well as many Sderot residents, want the government to launch a large-scale military operation in the Gaza Strip against terror groups responsible for the rocket fire.
The decision to launch the strike was sparked by a Qassam attack
on a kindergarten in the city on Monday. A rocket landed within meter of the child care facility, leaving 12 children in need of treatment for shock.
Sderot residents and students will hold a protest outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on Wednesday to pressure the government to respond to the daily rocket fire.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert issued
a stern warning to the Palestinians on Monday, saying that Israel would respond if the rocket fire persisted.
The Islamic Jihad terror group claimed responsibility for the attacks on Sderot, boasting Monday evening that its rockets were paralyzing Sderot.
"The strike in Sderot strengthens us and proves that the rocket fire yields and disrupts the Israelis' lives, just like the Israelis' actions harm the Palestinians," a spokesman for the al-Quds Brigades, the Islamic Jihad's military wing, which is responsible for the rocket fire, told Ynet.
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