PALESTINE’S UN ambassador Riyad Mansour wrote to the security council on Monday night demanding action over the death of a five-year-old girl at the hands of a hit-and-run driver.

Schoolgirls Inas Khalil, five, and Nilin Asfour, eight, were crossing the road after getting off a bus before being mown down in front of their mothers.

Inas died hours later and Nilin remains in a critical condition.

The driver was a man from the illegal Yitzhar settlement. He insists he did not deliberately hit the girls and claims he drove on without stopping because he was scared of the Palestinian villagers.

But Mr Mansour said extremist settlers are responsible for a large number of hit-and-run attacks on Palestinian children and are never brought to justice.

Settlers also frequently attack Palestinians and burn their crops.

The ambassador called on the UN to make Israel “rein in the terror and violence being perpetrated by its settlers.”