Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that 2 PRCS Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics, Yusuf Zeino and Ahmed Al-Madhoun, murdered by Israeli tank as they went to rescue 6-year-old girl, Hind Rajab.
“I am so scared,” she had said in a desperate phone call to the Palestine Red Crescent Society. “Call someone to come get me, please.”
But after more than two weeks of frantic efforts to reach her, Hind’s body was recovered on Saturday, alongside relatives and two PRCS rescue workers sent to find her.
The aid agency and the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip confirmed the grim discovery, and blamed Israeli forces.
Hind initially survived the shooting and managed to talk to her family by telephone and make an emergency call, which the PRCS published on February 3.
“For over three hours, Hind desperately pleaded for rescue from the occupation (Israeli) tanks surrounding her, enduring gunfire and the horror of being alone, trapped among the bodies of her relatives shot by the Israeli forces in front of her eyes,” it added.
Nothing more was then heard from the young girl, even as the ambulance was sent to get her, the organization said. Her grandfather said she was injured in the back, hand, and foot.
“She was frightened, terrified,” he told AFP, sobbing.
“Hind is my first grandchild, she’s a piece of my heart.”
There was no comment from the Israeli army when contacted by AFP. The Palestinian militant group Hamas urged human rights groups and the international community to document what it called a “horrific crime”.
Hind’s highly publicised case comes as aid agencies warn that children and families are bearing the brunt of Israel’s war with Hamas.
Children are dying “at an alarming rate” in Gaza, the UN children’s agency UNICEF said.
Thousands have been killed and many more injured, with others at risk because of lack of food, water and medicine, the UN children’s agency UNICEF said.
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