How Israel terrorised and murdered 6-year-old Hind Rajab, her 6 relatives, and 2 medics in Gaza
How Israel terrorised and murdered 6-year-old Hind Rajab, her 6 relatives, and 2 medics in Gaza
The story of a 6-year-old who was slaughtered alongside six of her relatives in their family car by Israeli terrorists.
In a story that has become typical of the besieged Gazans, Hind Rajab’s family had a difficult decision to make: either they all flee their homes together to survive the Israeli terrorist onslaught or move in different groups to ensure at least some members of the family live on if death comes one groups’s way and spares the other.
On January 29, while Hind’s parents and siblings fled their home in Gaza City on foot, they decided to send 6-year-old Hind away with her uncle, aunt, and their four kids in their family car.
Around 2:45 PM, the car came under a barrage of Israeli terrorist fire in Tel Al-Hawa neighbourhood, leaving only two survivors: Hind and her 15-year-old cousin Layan Hamadah. The duo were now with five dead relatives in the family car. When the Palestinian Red Crescent Society reached Layan over the phone, she sounded scared and desperate, telling them: “The tank is beside me.” When asked if the two survivors remained inside the car, Layan responded, “Yes, we are inside the car, and the tank is beside us.”
Just then, the tank(s) — satellite images captured three tanks a short distance in front of the car with their gun barrels pointed at the car — opened fire as she screamed in horror before the line went silent. Layan was dead.
Now Hind was the only survivor left with six dead relatives in the car. As a clearly marked ambulance made its way to rescue the girl from the Zionist onslaught, the Red Crescent’s Rana al-Faqih attempted to calm the little girl over the phone. Hind pleaded with Rana, “Come get me, come.” She added: “I’m so scared, please come.” Rana asked if she could see the Zionist tanks; Hind told her that there was one very close to the car approaching it from the front.
As the darkness fell, the scared little girl surrounded by dead bodies of her relatives asked the Red Crescent’s Rana, “What’s the time?” She repeated: “What’s the time? It’s almost night.” Rana was unable to control her emotions. The girl told her: “It’s almost night. I’m scared,” and began to sob. “Please, come get me,” she pleaded again.
“Darling, if I could, I would come and get you,” Rana comforted the 6-year-old, facing imminent death amid a pile of corpses.
At one point, Rana asked the little girl to recite the Qur’an with her to calm her fears down.
The Israeli terrorists granted permission to the Red Crescent ambulance to make its way to Hind’s car at 5:40 PM. Medics Yusef Zeino and Ahmad al-Madhoon arrived at around 6:00 PM.
As the medics approached the little girl, Hind’s mother Wissam Hamadah took to the phone to speak to her daughter and heard her voice. Hind was told that help was nearby. “The car is one minute away, but it will move slowly. The car is behind you.”
Yusef, one of the medics on their way to Hind, told the Red Crescent, “I am nearly there, OK?” But the two never made it to Hind. Rana explained what happened: “We heard gunfire. We were surprised — we couldn’t imagine [the Israelis] would fire on them. And we lost contact with them.”
After about five minutes, they lost contact with Hind as well. Repeated attempts to contact Hind and the two medics Yusef and Ahmad proved unsuccessful.
The Israelis kept denying access to the ambulance as well as Hind’s car for 12 days until the Zionist state’s terrorist thugs withdrew from the area. On February 10, the seven dead, including Hind, were found in the mangled car. While the two brave Red Crescent medics, who went to rescue the 6-year-old, were found dead in their ambulance.
The car was marked with numerous bullet holes after being fired at from several angles. Moreover, Al Jazeera’s investigation revealed that it was rammed and pushed from its location.
The ambulance was reduced to a scrap heap. Al Jazeera reported that “the extensive damage suggests a tank might have run over it.”
Nebal Farsakh of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society spoke of the ambulance being found just metres away from the besieged car. “We have very clear red cross emblems on top of all of our ambulances,” she said. “This is horrible because when we have waited so many hours, leaving Hind appealing to us, crying, saying please come pick me up, and then, unfortunately, although we have waited all of these hours to guarantee our safe access, it wasn’t a safe access.”
It wasn’t the first time — nor will it be the last — that an Israeli guarantee of safe access was anything but safe access.
The Israelis, to no one’s surprise, have feigned ignorance. Dana Erlich, Israeli Ambassador to Ireland has said: “I heard about this tragic case. I don’t know what exactly happened there.”
The innocent Israelis don’t know what happened. How could they know what happened in a territory they controlled that day? Typical normal behaviour from a totally normal country.
The only surprise has been that the Zionists haven’t labelled every single one of those they murdered that day, including the 6-year-old Hind, as Hamas terrorists, considering they have repeatedly labelled almost everyone they have killed a Hamas operative and every structure they have levelled a Hamas base.
Perhaps it’s just a matter of time before the genocidal Israeli regime sticks the same label on the nine martyrs from January 29.
Hind is just one of the 12,660 children slaughtered by Israel so far.
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I wrote about here the next day, by the sound of the recording you can hear that she was shot pointblank, by the photos, most likely by someone on tank which was driving next to them.
Also according to some reports, the nurses had confirmed she was alive and than told that they were shined on with a laser before the conversation was cut.
The images of the car and of the ambulance speak for them selfs.
This was yet again an other atrocious war crime.
Here a powerful sentence.
They tried to burry us, but they didn’t realize we are seeds.
Palestine, you are not alone.
Long live Palestine.
https://mywisdom.substack.com/p/sos-gaza
Absolutely heartbreaking.