Masked Palestinian youth threw stones and fired fireworks at a complex housing a preschool Tuesday afternoon in the Mount of Olives neighborhood in a continuation of increasing incidents of violence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in particular.
In a video filmed by a nearby civilian, the group of Palestinians can be seen throwing a continued volley of rocks at a playground, causing the children to hide in a protected structure until police arrived on the scene.
Rock throwers in Jerusalem.
The suspects were arrested soon after the incident.
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Batyah Harush, a caretaker at the preschool, said, "We were in the yard and suddenly 10 masked men arrived in the area and starting throwing rocks and firing fireworks in the direction of our yard. The noise really frightened the children and they saw the masked men and panicked. So we went into a shelter and I immediately called the police."
Border police arrest a Palestinian suspected of stone throwing on Monday.
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The youth fled upon the arrival of the police. According to residents of the area, the last two months have been saturated by violence and other dangerous activity from the young Arab men who have thrown rocks, fired fireworks, and hurled Molotov Cocktails at Israeli vehicles and security forces.
However, the incident at the Mount of Olives was not the only one of its kind Tuesday. In another Jerusalem neighborhood, Armon HaNatziv, an 18-year-old Palestinian threw a rock at a residence. A glass pane was shattered in the attack. Police forces arrested the suspect.