Hind Rajab, the Palestinian girl killed by 333 bullets.
4 May would have been her birthday. She had been killed by 333 bullets, along with six members of her family, in January 1924. All that remained of her murder was a recording of her real voice in the desperate phone call for help to the Red Crescent rescue workers, whose nurses, once they reached the little girl, were in turn killed.
‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ was the title of the film that had recounted this tragedy, featuring, heart-wrenchingly, the little girl’s real voice. Produced in ’25, it had already won the Silver Lion at Venice and had been nominated for an Oscar in ’26.
Hind, fleeing Gaza with two uncles and three cousins, had been targeted by fire from an Israeli tank. They had all died, except for Hind and, for just a little while longer, a young cousin. Hind had remained hidden for hours in the car, as evidenced by the recording of the phone call later published by the Palestinian Red Crescent, which had managed to answer the girl’s call and dispatch an ambulance. The vehicle had reached the little girl, but a further Israeli attack had killed her too, along with her rescuers.
Israel initially denied the killing. Satellite imagery and investigations by the Washington Post and Sky News confirmed the first attack, whilst Forensic Architecture reconstructed the second, targeting the rescue ambulance and Hind Rajab,a Palestinian girl whose only crime was that she was Palestinian.
