War in Gaza: a 6-year-old girl, an Israeli tank and a scary call

In the call he managed to make the Palestinian ambulance service in the Gaza Strip Layan Hadama15 year old, you hear two things: the teenager saying I’m in a car very close to a tankand shortly after, the dull roar of splinters Accompanied by Yell out.

Layan, together with his cousin Hinda petite girl alone six yearsthey were the only survivors of a previous Israeli artillery attack that same January 29, in which the rest of the passengers of the vehicle -Layan’s parents and his four brothers- They were dead.

When the Palestinian Red Crescent contacted the same number again, a spokesperson for the organization explained to EFE: It was little Hind who answered; surrounded by the lifeless bodies of her relatives.

“She was afraid, she begged us to go and look for her, to go and look for her. Maybe she said it a hundred times in the three hours we talked“Nebal Farkash, spokesperson for the group, explains to EFE.

But moving in a Gaza bombed by Israel for more than 120 days not only involves extreme risks, but the transfer of an ambulance between closed military zones requires authorization from the Israeli army, which can take hours.

The vehicle was located near the campus of Al Azhar University, according to the Israeli minority newspaper Haaretz, which in an article questions the consequences of stories like that of Hind, which show “human beings (in Gaza) struggling to survive”they are not broadcast on Israeli television or the press.

More than three hours later, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah informed them they could go out looking for the girlafter coordinating a safe route with COGAT, a branch of the Israeli Ministry of Defense that operates in the occupied Palestinian territories.

“Once we receive the green light, Our paramedics responded to the scenewhere they confirmed it they could see the car where Hind was,” Farkash continues, “but then we lost (telephone) connection to both Hind and the ambulance, and all we heard were gunshots around us.”

Nine days have already passed since the girl, together with seven relatives, left her neighborhood in Gaza City, the northern area of ​​the enclave almost completely decimated, including hospitals, in the Israeli war offensive by land, sea and air.

Where is Hind?

Since, No one knows anything about Hind’s whereabouts.But nor that of Yousef Zeino or Ahmed al Madhoun, the two paramedics who came to his aid.

“We don’t know if they are still alive or not, if they have been arrested, we have many questions and we need answers to our questions”, insists Farkash, aware of the risk they run.

Since last October 8th at least eleven Palestinian Red Crescent employees were killed while carrying out their workFarkash laments, while the hospitals in which they operate, and where thousands of Gazans take refuge, have been the weak point of the artillery.

11 thousand kids dead

On February 2, a worker was killed by Israeli gunfire as she prepared to rescue two wounded at Al Amal hospital, in Khan Yunis (south), surrounded by military forces for 17 days and, according to the organization , which has 8,000 displaced people, people were forcibly evacuated.

In this context, as the minutes pass, the hours pass; The chances of finding Yousef, Admed or Hind alive decreasein a Gaza without safe roads and densely populated where more than 11,000 children have already died.