A six-year-old girl who disappeared in Gaza City on January 29 was found dead along with some of her relatives and the two paramedics who came to save her in a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance, as revealed by the humanitarian organization.
Hind Rajab was fleeing the city with his uncles and three cousins when the car they were traveling in came under fire from several Israeli tanks, the BBC reported. Recordings of calls between the girl and the emergency service suggest that only she was left alive and alone inside the vehicle, hidden from Israeli troops under the bodies of her dead relatives.
His pleas on the phone for help suddenly ended as gunshots and explosions were heard. Yesterday, nurses from the Palestinian Red Crescent managed to enter an area that had been previously sealed off because it was considered an active combat zone. The paramedics found the black Kia in which the girl was traveling and which was riddled with bullets.
All its occupants were dead from the effects of bullets and shrapnel, as well as the paramedics who had come to rescue them with an ambulance. “The occupation deliberately targeted the ambulance despite having coordinated to rescue the girl,” denounces the Red Crescent.
"The Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance was found to have been bombed in the Tal al Hawa area of Gaza City, resulting in the death of crew members Yusuf Zeino and Ahmed Al Madhoun, who had been missing since the rescue mission of the Hind Rajab girl 12 days ago," the Red Crescent said in a statement.
Twelve days ago, it was Layan Hadama, Hind's 15-year-old cousin, who was the first to call the emergency services, to ask for help for both of them, the only survivors of an Israeli artillery attack that January 29 on a vehicle in which The rest of the family members died: Layan's parents and his four brothers.
In the call, two things are heard: the teenager saying that they are inside the car very close to an Israeli tank, and then the dull roar of shrapnel accompanied by screams. When the Palestinian Red Crescent contacted the same number again, it was little Hind who answered; she surrounded by the lifeless bodies of her relatives, including Layan's.
"She was afraid, she begged us to go look for her, to please go look for her. Maybe she said it a hundred times in the three hours we spoke," Nebal Farkash, spokesperson for the Red Crescent, explained to EFE this week. Hours later, the Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed a safe route to go look for her, after coordinating the rescue with the Israeli Army; but the ambulance never arrived and communication could not be reestablished with the two paramedics who went for her.
Hind's case has had a lot of media coverage in recent days as her call for help and the harsh circumstances of her death have been recorded. More than 11,500 children have died in more than four months of military offensive, which has claimed the lives of almost 28,000 Gazans, according to data from the Gaza Ministry of Health, controlled by the Islamist group Hamas.
