Killing of Hind Rajab

2024 killing of a Palestinian child in the Gaza Strip Hind Rami Iyad Rajab ( Arabic : هند رامي إياد رجب ; 3 May 2018 – 29 January 2024) was a five-year-old Palestinian girl in the Gaza Strip who was killed by Israeli forces during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip , which also killed six of her family members and two paramedics coming to her rescue. Rajab and her family were fleeing Gaza City when their vehicle was shelled, killing her uncle, aunt and three cousins, with Rajab and another cousin surviving and contacting the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) to ask for help while noting that they were being attacked by an Israeli tank. The cousin was later also killed and Rajab was left stranded in the vehicle for hours on the phone, as paramedics from PRCS attempted to rescue her. Both Rajab and the paramedics were later also found killed on 10 February after an Israeli withdrawal. Israel claimed that there were not any troops present in the neighborhood and denied carrying out the attack. However, this was refuted by The Washington Post and Sky News 's investigations relying on satellite imagery and visual evidence, which concluded that a number of Israeli tanks were indeed present and one had likely fired 335 rounds on the car that Rajab and her family had been in, with tank operators being able to see that the car had civilians including children in it. The Forensic Architecture investigation also concluded that an Israeli tank had also likely attacked the ambulance that came for Rajab. In the aftermath of the killing, Western media outlets were criticized for their coverage of the incident, including for not attributing who killed Rajab and for their adultification of her. American student protestors renamed overtaken buildings in honor of Rajab, such as Hind's Hall at Columbia University , drawing increased attention to the incident. Please use and share responsibly. "Gaza: Initial findings show Israeli army purposefully kills a child, uses an American-made missile to target her rescue crew" . Calls for answers more than a week after rescuers go missing trying to save trapped 5-year-old" . CORRECTION: This story has been updated to correct Hind's age. "Gaza's Health Ministry reveals names of several thousand dead, over 11,355 of them are minors" . There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).