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The body of the 6-year-old girl

Hind Rajab

, who had been missing for twelve days when she called the emergency services asking for help, was found along with those of the two workers who went to treat her, in an

attacked Palestinian

Red Crescent

ambulance. by Israeli troops in

Gaza

City .

"The Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance was found to have been bombed in the Tal al Hawa area of ​​Gaza City, resulting in the deaths of crew members

Yusuf Zeino

and

Ahmed Al Madhoun

, who had been missing since the rescue mission of the Hind Rajab girl 12 days ago," the Red Crescent said in a statement.

The Israeli forces "deliberately attacked the ambulance", which was found in the

Tal Al Hawa

neighborhood , south of Gaza City, a few meters from the vehicle that was transporting Hind and from which the Red Crescent received the call for help. depending on the source.

"Despite prior coordination to allow the ambulance to reach the scene to rescue Hind, the Israeli occupation deliberately targeted the Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance team," the organization lamented.

Twelve days ago, it was

Layan Hadama

, Hind's 15-year-old cousin, who was the first to call the emergency services, to ask for help for both of them, the only survivors of an Israeli artillery attack that January 29 on a vehicle in which The rest of the family members died: Layan's parents and his four brothers.

In the call, two things are heard: the teenager saying that they are inside the car very close to an Israeli tank, and then the dull roar of shrapnel accompanied by screams.

When the Palestinian Red Crescent contacted the same number again, it was little Hind who answered; she surrounded by the lifeless bodies of her relatives, including Layan's.

"She was afraid, she begged us to go look for her, to please go look for her. Maybe she said it a hundred times in the three hours we spoke,"

Nebal Farkash

, spokesperson for the Red Crescent, explained to EFE this week.

Hours later, the Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed a safe route to go look for her, after the rescue had been coordinated with the Israeli Army; But hours later the ambulance never arrived and they were never able to establish communication with the two paramedics who came for her.

Hind's case has had a lot of media coverage in recent days as her call for help and the harsh circumstances of her death have been recorded.

More than 11,500 children have died in more than four months of military offensive, which has claimed the lives of almost 28,000 Gazans, according to data from the Gaza Ministry of Health, controlled by the Islamist group

Hamas

.