Photo Caption: Stones hurled at Jerusalem kindergarten playground

Photo Credit: Ynet News





When it's all said and done, October 22nd, 2014, will go down in the history books as a day of international tragedy.

In Ottawa, an unarmed Canadian soldier was killed while standing post outside the War Memorial at Parliament Hill, a senseless tragedy that shock the nation as we continue to mourn the young war hero.

In Jerusalem, an attack at the Jerusalem Light Rail left several injured, and a 3-month-old baby dead, at the hands of a member of extremist terrorist organization Hamas, who railed his car into the Jerusalem station.

Following the incident, on Thursday morning, stones were hurled at a Ma'ale ha-Zeitim kindergarten (in East Jerusalem), near the Arab neighborhood of Ras al-Amud.

Reports indicate that no was injured, and no damage was done to any property.

Police are currently investigating and looking for the suspects, who fled the scene.

"We heard booms in the morning coming from the kindergarten," a father of one of the kids at the kindergarten, Shlomi, told Ynet News. "We went into the kindergarten and saw all the kids cooped up in one of the rooms. The kindergarten's entire playground was covered with stones. From in between the houses we could see several masked men throwing stones. "

According to Shlomi, the incident took place "right in the center of Jerusalem. There are over a hundred Jewish families here, we're not in the middle of Tayibe."

"We have to thoroughly deal with this problem. There's a daily friction, but the problem is that they don't let the security forces act. There's a policy of containment, and that's why the neighbors here cause problems, and it's on the children's experience," he continued.

"We won't leave here, we won't break, even though this is a time of escalation," he added.

Clashes have erupted across Israel in the wake of these attacks. In Silwan, police confronted dozens of Palestinian stone throwers and protesters at the home of 21-year-old Abed Abdelrahman Shaludeh, the driver who staged the attack at the Jerusalem Light Rail station, who later died of his injuries.

Four of his family members who visited him were reportedly arrested.

Stones were later hurled at the Jerusalem Light Rail station in Shuafat late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, but no damage was caused and thankfully, no one was injured.