We Will Never Forget Hind Rajab

Two years ago today, five year old Hind Rajab was murdered by the Israeli military as she phoned emergency services for help, bleeding and surrounded by the bodies of her family in a car. An ambulance was sent to save her. It was bombed by an Israeli airstrike as it approached her. The paramedics were incinerated.

Hind was shot 355 times by IDF soldiers.

In the months following this coldblooded murder of a child, her family and the medical professionals sent to help her, Western media repeatedly referred to Hind as a “young woman.” Many news sites ignored her story completely.

But we will never forget Hind. We will never forget what Israel did to her and to tens of thousands of children like her. Tens of thousands of children who were buried under the rubble of their homes, shelters or schools, deliberately starved, or who succumbed to disease from tainted water or malnutrition. We will never let them erase her life or any of the others who have died or who continue to suffer in this genocide.

Rest in peace, Hind. You will always live on in our hearts.

*artwork by Shepard Fairey, Instagram account: obeygiant

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