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.

The Palestinian girl died after being trapped in a car for hours while begging for help, in one of the highest-profile incidents in the war.

Israel's military has confirmed that it opened fire on a car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab, who was left trapped for hours, begging for help, her relatives lying dead around her,…