Staff members in Barzilai hospital in Ashkelon moved all premature babies to a protected room reinforced against rocket strikes on Saturday, at the request of the Homefront Command. The move was made just two days after several Grad rockets landed in Ashkelon, some near the hospital.
Several people were wounded in rocket strikes in Ashkelon on Saturday. The decision to move some immobile patients to sheltered rooms was seen as a lesson from the Second Lebanon War, when many rocket attack victims were taken to hospitals that were not reinforced against rocket attacks.