Police search for 9-year-old Haymanut Kasau, at a forest in the northern city of Safed, March 10, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
Police are continuing the search for 9-year-old Haymanut Kasau from the northern city of Safed who has been missing for two weeks, though there are currently no leads, Hebrew media reports.
“This is one of the biggest mysteries I’ve come across in my career… it’s as if the earth has swallowed the girl,” a police official is quoted as saying by the Mako news site.
“We won’t be able to look for the girl forever. We’ve invested tremendous efforts in the past two weeks, but we’re still at the starting point. If there isn’t significant progress soon, we’ll move on to the intelligence level,” he adds.
Haymanut was last seen in security footage at 7:45 p.m. on February 25 handing out municipal election leaflets outside the Jewish Agency absorption center, where she has lived for the past three years since immigrating with her family from Ethiopia.
Haymanut Kasau, 9, who went missing on February 25, 2024, from a Jewish Agency absorption center in Safed, northern Israel. (Courtesy)
She stands at 1.20 meters (3’11”) and is slim with dark hair and dark eyes.
She was wearing pink pants, a black skirt, and a white shirt at the time of her disappearance.
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