"The film tells the true story of Hind, who was killed by Israeli forces in 2024 as she and her family tried to evacuate Gaza City, blending recordings of real emergency calls with dramatic re-enactments. It draws on harrowing audio from Hind Rajab's call to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, in which rescuers tried to reassure her as she lay trapped in a bullet-ridden car with the bodies of her aunt, uncle and three cousins, who had all been killed by Israeli fire."
"The girl was then also killed, as were the two ambulance workers who went to the scene to try to rescue her. A recording of the phone call was widely shared on social media after her death, causing renewed international outrage over Israel's attacks on civilians. At least 71,551 Palestinians have been killed and 171,372 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war began, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, many of them children. UNICEF, the UN's agency for children, said earlier this month that more than 100 Palestinian children had been killed in Gaza, even since the start of the ceasefire that began in October last year."
The Voice of Hind Rajab is a docudrama that combines authentic emergency-call recordings with dramatized re-enactments to portray the death of five-year-old Hind Rajab during an evacuation of Gaza City in 2024. Hind lay trapped in a bullet-ridden car with several family members who had been killed by Israeli fire; two ambulance workers who attempted rescue were also killed. A widely shared recording of her call to the Palestine Red Crescent Society provoked international outrage. The film was shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Gaza authorities report tens of thousands killed and many more wounded, including large numbers of children.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
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