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RAMALLAH, West Bank — “Your Excellency the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, greetings from the Palestinian people. We ask you that all detainees, prisoners and bodies of innocent martyrs be handed over because they have the right to freedom of education and to play rather than be tortured in Israeli prisons.”
With these words, Mariam Hashem al-Mahatina, a 14-year-old student in Hawaa High School for Girls in south Hebron, addressed Ban. Her letter was among half a million other letters that Palestinian students wrote Nov. 7 as part of the campaign launched in solidarity with detained children.
