Day 115: Israel killed 6-yr-old Hind Rajab and the Paramedics who came to save her - DESPITE getting clearance from the IDF.
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“Come take me. Please, will you come?” were Hind Rajab’s last words. We heard them. We heard the gunfire that followed.
Hind Rajab was a six-year-old Palestinian girl from the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood in Gaza City who was killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), after being the sole survivor of Israeli tank fire on the vehicle in which she had fled with six relatives.
Rajab's family were fleeing Tel al-Hawa when an Israeli army tank shot at their vehicle, killing her aunt, uncle, and four cousins. The only other survivor at the time, her 15-year-old cousin, called the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) for emergency aid, crying and screaming that Israeli forces were shooting at them amid the sound of gunfire before going silent when she was also killed. Rajab was then the sole survivor in the car, surrounded by the dead bodies of her family. Her subsequent emergency three-hour phone call with PRCS was released, in which she told the dispatcher, "I'm so scared, please come. Come take me. Please, will you come?" She was eventually killed by Israeli forces.
A PRCS ambulance was sent to rescue Rajab, which was also attacked by Israeli forces, killing two PRCS paramedics, Yusuf Zeino and Ahmed al-Madhoun, in a deliberate attack according to the organization, and despite the fact that Israel was notified of its dispatch.[3] Israel claimed that its troops were not near the vehicle in which Rajab was killed.[4] However, Al Jazeera and The Washington Post refuted Israel's claims, basing their investigations on satellite imagery.[5][6] Just three days prior to the killings, Israel had been ordered by the International Court of Justice to refrain from committing any acts that would constitute genocide.[7][8][9]
UPDATE:
Columbia University Students took over Hamilton Hall on April 30th, in proud Columbia tradition dating back to the Vietnam War to occupy the building, and renamed it Hind’s Hall. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/1/columbias-hamilton-hall-a-history-of-student-action-at-gaza-protest-hub
After Columbia students were violently beaten and sprayed and thrown down the steps of Hamilton Hall by the NYPD Special Task Unit, Macklemore put out a new song on May 7th entitled “Hind’s Hall” in which he paid tribute to Hind, to the student movement, and to Palestine. More than 112 million views and counting.
