DUBAI: In the early evening of Jan. 24, 2026, 5-year-old Hind Rajab took her final breaths while pleading over the phone for emergency workers to rescue her.
“Please come take me, I beg you. Please come. Call anyone to come and get me, please,” she said.
Rajab had been traveling with her father and five other relatives from their neighborhood in Tel Al-Hawa in Gaza City after the Israeli military ordered residents to evacuate the area when their vehicle came under Israeli fire.
Rajab and her 15-year-old cousin Layan initially survived.
Layan later died, leaving Rajab alone in the wreckage, surrounded by the bodies of her relatives.
