- Six-year-old Hind Rajab, who went missing in Gaza City last month, has been found dead.
- Hind was discovered along with two paramedics who had been attempting to rescue her.
- She had made contact with emergency services and begged them to save her as she hid from IDF forces.
A six-year-old girl who disappeared in Gaza last month was found dead alongside two paramedics who had attempted to rescue her, the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRCS), a humanitarian organization, said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
Hind had been traveling with several family members when their car came under fire from Israeli forces.
The PRCS released audio of Hind’s final moments as she lay trapped in the car for three hours. In the recordings, she pleaded with emergency services by phone to help find her and rescue her.
“Come take me,” she said. “I’m so scared. Please come.”
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Two PRCS paramedics, Yusuf Al-Zeino and Ahmed Al-Madhou, were sent to find Hind, but the agency lost contact with them.
They were later discovered dead in a burned-out ambulance, just meters from the bullet-riddled car where Hind also lay.
The PRCS claimed that Israeli forces had “deliberately targeted the ambulance” as it arrived at the scene “despite prior coordination to allow the ambulance to reach the location.”
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In a statement to the Guardian, a PRCS spokesperson said: “We have been in constant panic and fear over the last 12 days. We were unable to send anyone else to the area, so we were uncertain regarding their fate. We wondered if they were dead or alive.”
“Today, Hind’s family arrived at the location after the Israeli military withdrew from the area, and they found her inside the car with her dead family beside her,” they added.
Hind’s grandfather, Baha Hamada, told Agence France-Presse that “Hind and everyone else in the car is martyred,” per the Guardian.
Much of Gaza City has been devastated amid fierce fighting between the Israeli military and Hamas.
Many buildings have been destroyed, and streets have been left in ruins after Israel targeted the area as part of its “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip following Hamas’ October 7 attacks.
International warnings are now mounting in response to Israel’s planned offensive in Rafah, one of the last refuges for displaced Palestinian citizens.
Business Insider has contacted the PRCS for comment.
