The strange disappearance of Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old girl in Gaza under Israeli bombing

Back rajab6 years old, was in a car with relatives when they were hit by a fire in a tank Link. The girl survived and disappeared. Just like the lifeguards who went looking for her and who no one heard from again.

In a Gaza strip devastated by war with IsraelThe mysterious disappearance of this little Palestinian girl obsesses her grandfather, Bahá Hamadawho nervously states that he hasn’t slept a wink in a week.

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“We want to know what happened to him, whatever it was. I can’t imagine her among the corpses, without food or water and in extreme cold. Dogs and cats eat dead bodies”, says this 58-year-old man, now displaced to Rafaat the southern tip of the Gaza Strip.

Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl, poses for a photograph, missing in the Tel al-Hawa area of ​​Gaza City. (Photo by FAMILY HANDOUT / AFP) (-/)

“She was scared, terrified and had injuries to her back, hands and feet.”, he adds without stopping sobbing.

The city of Link It has been practically isolated from the rest of the Palestinian territory for weeks.

The United Nations has denounced the impossibility of delivering humanitarian aid to the hundreds of thousands of people who remain in the north of the Strip, which has been seriously damaged since the start of the war in October.

Fighting is now intensifying in the south. At the Gaza CityIn the north of the Strip, bodies were left abandoned in the streets and others remained trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings.

The girl was traveling in the car Hindu It is Basharthe brother of Hamadahis sister-in-law and many other children.

Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl, poses for a photograph, missing in the Tel al-Hawa area of ​​Gaza City. (Photo by FAMILY HANDOUT / AFP) (-/)

They were trying to escape Israeli forces in the vicinity of Tel al-Hawabut they encountered tanks that apparently opened fire.

The sound of a door

“I called my brother and his daughter answered. Layan. She told me that her parents and three brothers were killed and that she was alive with Hind. We tried to calm her down by saying we would call an ambulance.“, the grandfather told AFP.

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Hind then spoke to her mother on the phone. The girl said she saw the ambulance arriving. “From him Mom heard the sound of a car door opening and then lost connection” he adds.

Since then, nothing.

Layan, 15, died like everyone else in the car. But what about the little one?

The Israeli military did not respond to AFP questions about the shooting of a car full of civilians. Not even about the girl’s fate or who went looking for her.

O Palestinian Red Crescent confirmed that an operator had Layan on the line and heard the sound of gunshots.

No one has seen the two lifeguards who went looking for the girl since then. Yusef Zeino It is Ahmed al-Mahonsent to the scene with an ambulance.

“We call on the international community to intervene immediately to put pressure on the occupying authorities (Israel, NDLR) to explain what happened to little Hind and the team”of the Red Crescent, said that organization on Saturday.

Israeli soldiers patrol an area of ​​Khan Yunis, the main city of Gaza, in southern Gaza. (Photo by Nicolás GARCÍA/AFP). (NICÓLAS GARCIA/)

“The tanks were approaching”

The war broke out in October 7th after an unprecedented attack on Israeli soil by commandos from the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas infiltrated from Gaza, which resulted in the deaths of more than 1,160 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data.

In response, Israel launched a military offensive that caused nearly 27,500 deaths in the Gaza Strip, the vast majority of them civilians, according to the Health Ministry of Hamas, which governs the territory.

Hamada explains that Hind’s image haunts him.

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“Hind is my first granddaughter, she is a part of me“, he says, when showing photos in which the girl appears smiling, carefully combed, wearing colorful dresses in a shiny house. Times that seem unreal today.

Unable to hold back his tears, Hamada remembers his last words.

“She told me she was scared and hungry and asked me to go look for her. “He told me the tanks were approaching.”.

Source: Elcomercio