Relatives find the body of Hind Rajab who begged rescuers to send help after being trapped by Israeli military fire.
The body of a six-year-old Palestinian girl, missing for 12 days after an Israeli tank targeted their family car in Gaza, has been found along with the bodies of two doctors sent to search for them.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and the family of the girl, Hind Rajab, confirmed on Saturday that all seven people inside the car had been killed, with the Palestinian aid organization saying it had lost the members of crew Yusuf Zeino and Ahmed al-Madhoun in the accident. Israeli attack on civilians in Gaza City.
Family members found Hind’s body along with those of his uncle, aunt and their three children near a roundabout in the suburb of Tal al-Hawa, the Palestinian News Agency reported Wafa.
Another of Hind’s uncles, Sameeh Hamadeh, said the car was riddled with bullets.
“The occupation deliberately targeted the ambulance upon its arrival at the scene, where it was found a few meters from the vehicle containing the trapped Hind child,” the PRCS statement said.
“Despite prior coordination to allow the ambulance to reach the location to rescue the Hind child, the occupation deliberately targeted the crew of the Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance. »
🚨 Urgent: Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance discovered bombing Tal al-Hawa neighborhood in #Gaza City, leading to the deaths of crew members Yusuf Zeino and Ahmed Al-Madhoun, who had been missing since a mission to rescue the child Hind Rajab 12 days ago.#NotATarget❌… pic.twitter.com/dCgfeevTd8
– PRCS (@PalestineRCS) February 10, 2024
Earlier this month, PRCS released an audio file in which Hind could be heard pleading on the phone with a member of the rescue team. It is believed that all of her family members were killed before her, leaving her terrified in the car with the corpses of her loved ones.
“I’m so scared, please come.” Please call someone to come and take me away,” she was heard crying desperately during the call which PRCS said lasted three hours in an attempt to calm the frightened child.
The Israeli military previously said it was unaware of the incident.
The PRCS began counting the hours since it lost contact with Hind and the crew, trying to draw attention to the plight of Palestinian health workers, who persist under constant attacks from the Israeli army.
In an interview with Tel Aviv Tribune Arabic shortly after the family was targeted, Hind’s mother said she managed to speak to him and an older cousin, Layan Hamadeh, 15, who was with Hind in the car.
“They are shooting at us. The tank is next to us,” Layan said in a recording released at the time.
Then a barrage of gunfire was heard, followed by screams, before the line was cut.
Hind’s plight, revealed in the harrowing audio clips, underscored the impossible conditions for civilians facing Israel’s four-month assault on Gaza, which many governments have described as “genocide.”
The Israeli army has killed nearly 28,000 people – most of them women and children – since October 7, when Hamas fighters attacked Israel, killing more than 1,100 people and taking 253 prisoners, according to reports. Israeli figures.
