Haymanot Kasao family: 1,000 days missing, rally Wednesday

The campaign headquarters for Haymanot Kasao announced a mass protest march and rally for this Wednesday (November 18), ahead of the painful milestone of one thousand days since the nine-year-old girl disappeared from the absorption center in Tzfat.

From the first moment, her parents, Tsefia and Benchi Kasao, hoped the incident would end quickly and Haymanot would return home. But on November 21, it will be 1,000 days since her disappearance, days during which, the campaign headquarters believes, it is clear this was an abduction, because "little girls don't just vanish."

"In what country is there 'time' when a little girl disappears even for one day?" the campaign headquarters asks. "In what country can you live alongside the fact that a little girl has been abducted for nearly 1,000 days and not do everything possible? Every citizen, every police officer and every security official knows the investigation is not being conducted properly. The police themselves say there is no lead, no possibility and no searches, so what now?"

The Demand: Transfer the Investigation to the Shin Bet

Against the backdrop of ongoing frustration with the helplessness and dead end in which the police investigation finds itself, the campaign headquarters is sharpening its call to immediately order the transfer of the case to the Shin Bet.

"The investigation must be transferred to the Shin Bet's responsibility," the headquarters emphasizes. "Because if this is how an investigation of a little girl is conducted, every citizen in Israel should be worried for the safety of their children and for their own safety."

To mark the incomprehensible number of days and the demand for a change in how the investigation is managed, a march will set out on day 996 of her disappearance from Tel Aviv's Savidor Central train station, proceeding toward Hostages Square, where a central rally will be held. The headquarters is calling on the general public to come in large numbers, to support the family and to demand that decision-makers do everything to bring Haymanot home.