"For three-and-a-half long hours on Jan. 29, the cellphone in 6-year old Hind Rajab’s hands was the closest thing she had to a lifeline. Alone in the back seat of a car outside a #Gaza City gas station, she was drifting in and out of consciousness, surrounded by bodies, as she told emergency dispatchers that #Israeli tanks were rumbling closer.
...Paramedics were on their way, the dispatchers kept telling her: Hold on."
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in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •"Twelve days later, when a #Palestinian civil defense crew finally reached the area, they found Hind’s body in a car riddled with bullets...
The ambulance lay charred roughly 50 meters away (about 164 feet) from the car, its destruction consistent with the use of a round fired by #Israeli tanks, according to six munitions experts."
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in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •"Humanitarian officials have warned that a system of coordination with Israel’s military, designed to protect their aid deliveries and lifesaving ambulance maneuvers, is broken. #Israeli strikes on a #WorldCentralKitchen convoy that killed seven aid workers in #Gaza on April 1 and stirred global outrage...
Hind’s case touched a nerve around the world... her recorded cries for help offered a glimpse into the terrors faced by civilians."
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in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •"Around 1 p.m., Hind’s cousin, 15-year-old Layan, called [her uncle] Samir. She told him they were surrounded and the Israeli army had opened fire on their car.
Everyone in the vehicle, except for Hind and Layan, were dead, she said. Samir called another uncle, Mohammed, who eventually reached the PRCS."
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