Students call on Ban Ki-Moon to denounce fire bomb incident which left girl seriously injured
The letter, signed by more than 1000 students, called on the secretary general to condemn the attack and to condemn the burning of children worldwide.
By LIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZIUnited Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon(photo credit: REUTERS)
Students at the AMIT Lehava Ulpena, an all girls' school in Kdumim, penned a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon calling on him to denounce the incident some two weeks ago which left an 11-year-old girl in critical condition when a fire bomb was thrown at her car.The letter, signed by more than 1000 students, called on the secretary general to condemn the attack and to condemn the burning of children worldwide.“We turn to you, as head of the world's most important diplomatic institution, because we have not heard your voice speak out against these terrorists. We have not heard a harsh condemnation by the United Nations of those who burned an eleven year old girl who was coming home from her math lesson,” the letter stated.On December 25th, Avner Shapira and his daughter, Ayala, were driving in their car near Ma’aleh Shomron when a Molotov cocktail was hurled at their car. They managed to escape the burning vehicle and were evacuated to Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer where the girl was treated for third-degree burns over 30 to 40% of her body.“Ignoring this violence means tacit support of this heinous act. Those who seek to burn children should be banned from the civilized world. Those who wish to burn people are not human beings – and the United Nations must say this loud and clear,” the students wrote.Chana Alster, a student leading the initiative, said the students decided that they could no longer remain silent and wanted to “make our voice heard in the world, demanding our right to live.”“We haven’t heard any denunciation from the UN regarding the burning of a young innocent girl, who just wanted to come back home from her math class- and we call out to the UN secretary general to call out against the burning of children- also in the Shomron,” she said.The students wrote that it was their right to "travel safely on the roads and go to classes and celebrations without fear of terrorists and murderers."They ended the letter by posing a question to Ban Ki-Moon: "Are girls living in Samaria not entitled to the human right to life? Will you make your voice heard so the terrorists know that the world is not silent in the face of such horror?”
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