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Feb 2024
23m 40s

The story of Hind Rajab

Al Jazeera
About this episode

Six-year-old Hind Rajab spent three hours on the phone with Palestinian emergency services, crying for help, stranded in a car under Israeli fire in Gaza. Her relatives were killed while trying to escape. 12 days later, she was found dead. What happened after Hind’s phone line went dark?

In this episode: 

  • Nebal Farsakh (@FarsakhNebal), Director of Media at the Palestine Red Crescent Society
  • Rana Faqih, Disaster Preparedness and Response Coordinator
  • Hisham Mhanna (@MhannaHesham), ICRC Spokesperson in Gaza 

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Amy Walters, Fahrinisa Campana and Sarí el-Khalili with our host Malika Bilal. Miranda Lin fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

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