The submit by the Palestine Crimson Crescent was a haunting plea, hoping to be taught the destiny of three individuals not heard from for 5 days.
“The place is Hind? The place are Ahmed and Yousef? We have to know,” it mentioned.
Two of the group’s rescuers have been dispatched on Monday to search out 6-year-old Hind Rajab, believed to be trapped in a automobile in northern Gaza with numerous lifeless relations.
The Crimson Crescent mentioned certainly one of its staff had spoken extensively by telephone with Hind on Monday and that it believed that each one six of her kinfolk contained in the automobile together with her had been killed that very same day by Israeli fireplace.
The Israeli navy mentioned it was not conscious of the incident.
“The Crimson Crescent mentioned in a press release on Saturday night, “118 hours have handed, and the destiny of the PRCS ambulance workforce, Yousef Zeino and Ahmed al Madhoun, who went to rescue the 6-year-old lady, Hind, stays unknown.”
It was the most recent in a collection of determined posts the help group has put out each day because the rescuers went lacking, counting the hours since their disappearance in an effort to attract consideration to the plight of all three.
The Crimson Crescent mentioned a response coordinator, Rana al-Faqeh, had spoken to Hind for greater than three hours on Monday afternoon, making an attempt to assuage the frightened youngster.
“Come get me,” Hind pleaded, in line with an audio recording of the dialog launched on social media on Tuesday by the Crimson Crescent. “I’m scared. Please come. Please name somebody to return get me.” The recording couldn’t be independently verified.
Because the solar went down, Hind instructed Ms. al-Faqeh that she was afraid of the darkish. Ms al-Faqeh instructed reporters that she sought to reassure her, saying they have been making an attempt to ship individuals to rescue her.
After Ms. al-Faqeh spoke to Hind, the Crimson Crescent despatched the 2 rescuers in an ambulance to her automobile in Gaza Metropolis, which was close to a fuel station. The rescuers confirmed that they arrived at about 6 p.m. on Monday.
Then they misplaced contact and haven’t been heard from since.
The Crimson Crescent mentioned it had coordinated the actions of the ambulance with the Israeli navy, which invaded Gaza after the Oct. 7 assault on Israel by Hamas, the armed Palestinian group that controls the territory. Comparable coordination is completed by different support organizations working in Gaza, together with U.N. companies.
The Crimson Crescent has referred to as on the worldwide neighborhood to strain the Israeli navy to account for what occurred.
The group mentioned it first discovered of Hind’s plight from her relations elsewhere in Gaza Metropolis. They gave the group a telephone variety of somebody contained in the automotive.
In an interview with Al Jazeera Arabic aired on Wednesday, Hind’s mom mentioned she had spoken on Monday to her daughter and an older cousin, 15-year-old Layan Hamadeh, who was together with her within the automotive.
The Crimson Crescent; Hind’s mom, who was not named within the interview; and an uncle, Issam Hamadeh, who was additionally interviewed by Al Jazeera; all mentioned that Layan’s mother and father and her three siblings have been killed.
The Crimson Crescent mentioned it additionally spoke briefly to Layan on Monday. When she answered the telephone, she was panicked, in line with one other audio recording posted on Tuesday by the group on social media.
“They’re taking pictures at us. The tank is subsequent to us,” Layan mentioned on the recording, which couldn’t be independently verified. Then a barrage of taking pictures is heard. She screams earlier than the road goes silent.
The Crimson Crescent mentioned it believed that Layan, too, had been killed. Hind’s mom mentioned within the Al Jazeera interview that her daughter additionally instructed her Layan was lifeless.
Hind’s mom instructed Al Jazeera that she tried to calm her daughter by reciting verses from the Quran and praying. However she needed to cling up so the Crimson Crescent might name Hind and determine the place she was.
Her mom mentioned one of many final issues Hind mentioned to her was, “Don’t depart me, mama. I’m hungry. I’m harm.”
Rawan Sheikh Ahmad contributed reporting.