The Palestinian girl Hind, who remained trapped inside a car in Gaza, was killed by gunfire from the occupation (social networking sites)

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“How did Hind spend her night among corpses inside a car surrounded by occupation tanks and street dogs? No one can imagine the extent of terror this six-year-old girl was in, as she remained alive alone after her uncle Bashar Hamada’s car was targeted and he, his wife, and his three children were martyred.” .

There is no confirmed information about the fate of Hind Rajab (6 years old), and whether she slept or died? Contact with her was lost at five o’clock on Monday evening, and her last words, as she was exhausted by the wounds and the scenes of horror around her, were, “I am tired, I want to sleep.”

Hind's uncle and Bashar's brother, Omar Hamada, told Al Jazeera Net, "More than 24 hours have passed since this crime. We are deeply hurt by the martyrdom of my brother and his family, and we have not yet reached Hind to know her fate after this terrifying night."

💔This is a picture of the child Hind, who remained trapped inside a vehicle. The occupation opened fire on everyone in it, so they were all martyred (6 individuals). Hind remained for hours urging our crews to reach her to evacuate her from the area surrounded by Israeli tanks.


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Horror film

The tragedy occurred when the occupation tanks, penetrating the vicinity of the “Financial Roundabout” in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City, targeted a civilian car belonging to Bashar Hamada, accompanied by his wife and children, Muhammad (11 years old), Layan (14 years old), and Raghad (13 years old), and his niece, the child Hind.

It was one o'clock in the afternoon on Monday when Omar received a call from Layan: "Uncle, I am injured and Hind is too. My father, mother and brothers were martyred. We need an ambulance."

“I tried to calm her down, and I asked her to try to help anyone next to her to stop the bleeding, and I encouraged her, “You are big and strong, but the event was bigger than all the words of encouragement, and bigger than this child. I can’t, uncle, look at them (look at them),” Omar says.

According to Layan’s account to her uncle Omar, her father, the martyr Bashar, decided to move them from the gas station he owned near the “Finance Roundabout” to a family home on Al Wahda Street in Gaza City after he sensed the threat of survival, as the occupation tanks re-entered the neighborhood and areas west of the city.

Trying to survive

The occupation tanks opened fire on this civilian car, leaving those inside it dead and wounded. Bashar took pride in his wounds and opened the car door in an attempt to save himself and those of his family who were still alive. He was surprised by bullets that made him a martyr in front of Layan and Hind.

At those moments, Omar added, Layan was bleeding from injuries to her thigh and abdomen, while Hind was injured in her leg, and Layan stopped speaking, and her last words were, “They shot us again, and the dogs attacked the corpses.”

Before that last conversation, and for hours, Omar, who was displaced in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, was making calls and making attempts to ensure the arrival of an ambulance to the crime scene in an area that the occupation army considers “military,” and moving there is fraught with death.

The efforts of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society succeeded after contacts made by its officials from Gaza with the “Palestinian Liaison” in Ramallah, which is responsible for coordination and communication with the Israeli side, and with the International Committee of the Red Cross, in order to move an ambulance.

Did she sleep or die?

Red Crescent spokesman Raed Al-Nims told Al Jazeera Net, “Communication was completely cut off with the ambulance carrying two paramedics, and we do not know anything about their fate or the fate of Layan and Hind, and there has been no communication since six o’clock on Monday evening.”

Omar believes that Layan was most likely killed after her last call, and says, “After that, the Red Crescent and I contacted Hind, and she told me that blood was covering Layan’s face.”

Hind's voice was depicting scenes of horror around her, and she remained in contact with her uncle Omar and the Red Crescent crews until five o'clock on Monday evening before she surrendered, "I'm tired, I want to sleep." Did she sleep, or did her soul return to its creator? Omar wonders, pain squeezing his heart.

Source: Al Jazeera