Little Hind is believed to be the sole survivor of the Israeli attack in Gaza City
A six-year-old girl was trapped with the bloodied bodies of members of her family after a shelling on their car.
Little Hind was reportedly travelling with her mother’s uncle and her four cousins when Israel’s military attacked them in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood.
Chaos erupted as the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) targeted the central areas of the city, including UN-run shelters, yesterday.
Hind’s family were just some of the Palestinians targeted as they tried to flee the area and stopped at gas station.
She was the sole survivor in the attack on their car, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).
One of Hind’s cousins, Layan Hamadeh, called the organisation as Israeli soldiers aimed at them.
Hind’s family were just some of the Palestinians targeted
According to a recoding of the call, the 16-year-old said: ‘They are shooting at us.
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‘The tank is next to me. We are (hiding) in the car, we are next to the tank.’
As the PRCS responder continues asking ‘hello’, ‘hello’, Layan’s voice disappears and instead the sound of gunfire can be heard.
‘Hind remained for hours pleading for our teams to reach her and evacuate her from the area surrounded by Israeli tanks,’ PRCS wrote on X yesterday.
‘Around 6pm, our teams reached the area where Hind was trapped inside the car, which had been shot near the Fares petrol station in Gaza.
Smoke from bombardment billows in the background as displaced Palestinians flee from Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 30, 2024 (Picture: AFP)
A child lies on a bicycle packed with belongings (Picture: Reuters)
The bodies of Palestinians killed during the war are buried in a mass grave (Picture: Getty)
‘Since then, we lost contact with the team, and as of now, we are uncertain if our teams successfully reached the girl.’
Paramedics were deployed to the scene to help the youngster, but PRCS has since lost contact with them.
At least 18 hours have passed since then and the organisation has no idea if they reached the car and rescued Hind.
Earlier today, Israeli forces handed over to Palestinian authorities the bodies of dozens of people killed in recent weeks, health officials in the Palestinian enclave said.
The bodies, which had been held in Israel, were handed over through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing and will be buried in mass graves in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, the officials said.
The health ministry in Gaza did not immediately say how many bodies had been handed over, but residents put the number at around 100.
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