The mothers of the three Israeli teenagers kidnapped two weeks ago by Hamas terrorists urged the United Nations to do more to help rescue their children during remarks Tuesday before the international body.
Rachel Frankel, the mother of 16-year-old kidnap victim Naftali Frankel, spoke to the U.N. alongside Iris Yifrach and Bat-Galim Shaar, the mothers of the two other victims, Eyal Yifrach and Gilad Shaar.
Frankel said that statements condemning the kidnapping are not enough to rescue the children.
"I believe much more can be done — and should be done — by so many," Franke said. "That is why we three mothers have come here today — before the United Nations, and before the world — to ask everyone, to do whatever they can, to bring back our boys."
"It is wrong to take children, innocent boys or girls, and use them as instruments of any struggle. It is cruel. This council is charged with protecting human rights," she said. "I wish to ask: Doesn’t every child have the right to come home safely from school?"
"We just want them back in our homes, in their beds," Frankel said. "We just want to hug them again."