As residents of southern Israel were feeding their children breakfast and getting them ready for school, terrorists in Gaza were loading shells into mortars and rockets into launchers for a day of attacks on their neighbors.
Just few minutes before the children were due to arrive at the kindergarten in the Gaza Belt city of Sderot, a mortar shell slammed into the playground of the school yard.
Miraculously, the children had not yet arrived.
This photo, of a mortar bomb shot by Palestinian terrorists, in an Israeli kindergarten yard not far from , is dedicated to all the sanctimonious hypocrites claiming that Israel acts “ disproportionately “. We protect our citizens from the dangerous murderers of . pic.twitter.com/JEOkA7MqeW
— Emmanuel Nahshon (@EmmanuelNahshon)
Kindergarten teacher Tova Ludmer Gigi told reporters the mortar shell hit a tree in the yard. But she said the kindergarten opened on time, and the children were in their classrooms when it did.
The children, she said, were “singing and dancing and expressing themselves” about the attacks they experienced, the race to their safe spaces, and the damage they saw in the yard. “Some are blocking their ears and talking about the scary noise,” she noted. But she also told them that the kindergarten — which is reinforced against rocket and mortar attacks — “is the safest place in the world.”
Hamas firing rockets &mortars at civilian communities in Israel — one hit a kindergarten, thankfully before children had arrived — is beyond appalling. It’s terrorism, pure and simple, as immoral as it gets. And: what possible benefit would it bring to Palestinians in Gaza? None.
— Dan Shapiro (@DanielBShapiro)
President Reuven Rivlin called the kindergarten within minutes after the attack to speak with the children, and by speaker phone wished them a calm day. He invited them all to visit him at the presidential residence in Jerusalem. “He’s such a magical person!” the teacher said.