The publish by the Palestine Purple Crescent was a haunting plea, hoping to be taught the destiny of three folks not heard from for 5 days.
“The place is Hind? The place are Ahmed and Yousef? We have to know,” it stated.
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 car in northern Gaza with plenty of useless relations.
The Purple Crescent stated certainly one of its employees had spoken extensively by telephone with Hind on Monday and that it believed that every one six of her family contained in the car together with her had been killed that very same day by Israeli fireplace.
The Israeli navy stated it was not conscious of the incident.
The Purple Crescent stated in an announcement 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 woman, Hind, stays unknown.”
It was the newest 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 Purple Crescent stated 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 response to an audio recording of the dialog launched on social media on Tuesday by the Purple 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 informed Ms. al-Faqeh that she was afraid of the darkish. Ms. al-Faqeh informed reporters that she sought to reassure her, saying they have been making an attempt to ship folks to rescue her.
After Ms. al-Faqeh spoke to Hind, the Purple Crescent despatched the 2 rescuers in an ambulance to her car in Gaza Metropolis, which was close to a gasoline 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 Purple Crescent stated 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 assist organizations working in Gaza, together with U.N. companies.
The Purple Crescent has known as on the worldwide neighborhood to strain the Israeli navy to account for what occurred.
The group stated it first realized of Hind’s plight from her relations elsewhere in Gaza Metropolis. They gave the group a telephone variety of somebody contained in the automobile.
In an interview with Al Jazeera Arabic aired on Wednesday, Hind’s mom stated she had spoken on Monday to her daughter and an older cousin, 15-year-old Layan Hamadeh, who was together with her within the automobile.
The Purple Crescent; Hind’s mom, who was not named within the interview; and an uncle, Issam Hamadeh, who was additionally interviewed by Al Jazeera, all stated that Layan’s dad and mom and her three siblings have been killed.
The Purple Crescent stated it additionally spoke briefly to Layan on Monday. When she answered the telephone, she was panicked, in response to one other audio recording posted on Tuesday by the group on social media.
“They’re capturing at us. The tank is subsequent to us,” Layan stated on the recording, which couldn’t be independently verified. Then a barrage of capturing is heard. She screams earlier than the road goes silent.
The Purple Crescent stated it believed that Layan, too, had been killed. Hind’s mom stated within the Al Jazeera interview that her daughter additionally informed her Layan was useless.
Hind’s mom informed Al Jazeera that she tried to calm her daughter by reciting verses from the Quran and praying. However she needed to hold up so the Purple Crescent might name Hind and determine the place she was.
Her mom stated one of many final issues Hind stated to her was, “Don’t depart me, mama. I’m hungry. I’m harm.”
Rawan Sheikh Ahmad contributed reporting.
