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"her death is just one of nearly children killed in Gaza since the War Began in October according to the un's human rights office her name is now a rallying cry around the world for what the United Nations calls atrocities taking place in Gaza but her death has been shrouded in mystery her name is hin Bab and she was just years old when she was killed

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with her family trapped in a vehicle her face spread across social media her name shared online put on posters emblazoned on a banner unfurled during the Columbia University protests renaming their academic building hind Hall
in her honor in tonight's Prime Focus ABC's Marcus Moore reports on Hinn's death and retraces the moments right before she died on the phone with Medics pleading for [Music] help Monday the th of January Gaza City -year-old hin

reab is scared and [Music] alone at that morning as War raged closer to her family in the west of the city the Israeli Army issues an urgent order on social media for residents to leave the area Hinn's family split up grab what they can and go Amile from home the vehicle hind as end with six other members of her family comes Under Fire medical dispatchers at the Palestinian red crescent call them on the phone trying to help at around p.m. they reach hen's cousin Leanne she's

in the back seat next to her and this is part of that call [Music] hello shs out hello hello the line goes silent moments later it is hen who picks up the [Music] phone just after five p.m. two paramedics Yousef zoo and Ahmed al- madhun are urgently dispatched to where hind is trapped and surrounded roughly miles away by this time hind has been on the

phone for more than hours and it's getting dark the it's the [Music] by p.m. those paramedics are closed they radio their [Music] operators then their line goes silent by now red crescent dispatchers had managed to patch Hinn's mother wam into the call hoping that it might calm the scared little girl when that bang echoed through the phone line wessam cried out to her daughter using her nickname [Music] an the team did what they could to keep her talking but it was clear that

the child's thoughts were drifting she just kept saying come get me quickly and finally they lose contact all together for the next days as the fighting still raged no one knew for sure what exactly happened or where hind was her mother begged the International Community not to forget her daughter and to bring her home appealing for information the red crescent post photos of Hind and the paramedics on social media the story goes viral when a Palestinian civil

defense crew finally reached the area the scene was absolute Carnage the ambulance containing the two paramedics was decimated charred and crushed and just yards away the bullet riddled remains of a black car inside the bodies of hind lean and five more family members shot to death the US state department called for an investigation uh we are devastated about the reports of the death of uh hin RAB we have asked the Israeli authorities to inv investigate this

incident on an urgent basis we understand that they are doing so we expect to see those results on a time on a timely fashion uh and they should include uh accountability measures as appropriate on February th the Israeli Defense Force issues a statement saying that from their preliminary inspection it appears the IDF troops were not present near the

vehicle or within firing range of the described vehicle in which the girl was found satellite imagery of the area recently published by Planet labs and dated January th contradicts that claim it shows what appears to be four Israeli armored vehicles roughly yard from where hind was trapped in her uncle's car a Washington Post investigation using dispatcher recordings photos and videos of the aftermath and more than a dozen interviews with military satellite Munitions and

audio experts found more than a dozen Israeli armored vehicles visible within a quar mile of the hamata family car and that the s sound of the gunfire from the call with Leanne and evidence from photos of the bullet holes in the car were consistent with weapons used by the Israeli Army the seven family members including hen were buried at alifa hospital the Hamas run Health Ministry in Gaza now says more than people have been killed so far in this war and more than

recorded as children Ra faky was the calming voice on the other end of the line with hind she seen so much during her time as a red crescent dispatcher but it is the Innocence she heard on the call with hend that brings her to tears today I want to ask you about the call and while you were on the phone with with hen faky was back at work the day after

Hinn's body was found there were more calls to answer the office walls here pay homage to her colleagues who've been killed of them they say since the start of the war leaving many to wonder will there ever be Justice for those killed and will there be Justice for hind rup are you confident that there will be an investigation and that it will answer the

questions of what actually happened [Music] Hinn's mother is staying at a refugee camp in central Gaza enduring the unimaginable pain of losing a child and while surrounded by the horrors of this war she is moved by the way Hinn story has galvanized worldwide protest over the Bloodshed in Gaza she only hopes it will inspire those still fighting to choose
peace our thanks to Marcus Moore for that story after the IDF initially denied the their troops had been in the area when

hin was killed a state department spokesperson told ABC news last week the Israelis quote told us there had in fact been IDF units in the area but the IDF claims they had no knowledge or involvement in the type of strike described"

"her death is just one of nearly 15,000 children killed in Gaza since the War Began in October according to the un's human rights office her name is now a rallying cry around the world for what the United Nations calls atrocities taking place in Gaza but her death has been shrouded in mystery her name is hin Bab and she was just 5 years old when she was killed with her family trapped in a vehicle her face spread across social media her name shared online put on posters emblazoned on a banner unfurled during the Columbia University protests renaming their academic building

hind Hall in her honor in tonight's Prime Focus ABC's Marcus Moore reports on Hinn's death and retraces the moments right before she died on the phone with Medics pleading for [Music] help Monday the 29th of January Gaza City 5-year-old hin reab is scared and [Music] alone at 9:32 that morning as War raged closer to her family in the west of the city the Israeli Army issues an urgent order on social media for residents to leave the area Hinn's family split up grab what they

can and go A4 mile from home the vehicle hind as end with six other members of her family comes Under Fire medical dispatchers at the Palestinian red crescent call them on the phone trying to help at around 2:30 p.m. they reach hen's cousin Leanne she's in the back seat next to her and this is part of that call [Music] hello shs out hello hello the line goes silent moments later it is hen who picks up the [Music] phone just after five 40 p.m. two paramedics Yousef zoo and Ahmed al- madhun are urgently dispatched to where hind is trapped and surrounded roughly 2 miles away by this time

hind has been on the phone for more than 3 hours and it's getting dark the it's the [Music] by 600 p.m. those paramedics are closed they radio their [Music] operators then their line goes silent by now red crescent dispatchers had managed to patch Hinn's mother wam into the call hoping that it might calm the scared little girl when that bang echoed through the phone line wessam cried out to her daughter using her nickname [Music] an the team did what they could to keep her

talking but it was clear that the child's thoughts were drifting she just kept saying come get me quickly and finally they lose contact all together for the next 12 days as the fighting still raged no one knew for sure what exactly happened or where hind was her mother begged the International Community not to forget her daughter and to bring her home appealing for information the red crescent post photos of Hind and the paramedics on social media the story goes viral

when a Palestinian civil defense crew finally reached the area the scene was absolute Carnage the ambulance containing the two paramedics was decimated charred and crushed and just 50 yards away the bullet riddled remains of a black car inside the bodies of hind lean and five more family members shot to death the US state department called for an investigation uh we are devastated about the reports of the death of uh hin RAB we have asked the Israeli authorities

to inv investigate this incident on an urgent basis we understand that they are doing so we expect to see those results on a time on a timely fashion uh and they should include uh accountability measures as appropriate on February 25th the Israeli Defense Force issues a statement saying that from their preliminary inspection it appears the IDF troops were not present near the vehicle or within firing range of the described vehicle in which the girl was found satellite imagery of

the area recently published by Planet labs and dated January 29th contradicts that claim it shows what appears to be four Israeli armored vehicles roughly 300 yard from where hind was trapped in her uncle's car a Washington Post investigation using dispatcher recordings photos and videos of the aftermath and more than a dozen interviews with military satellite Munitions and audio experts found more than a dozen Israeli armored vehicles visible within a quar mile of the hamata family car and that the s sound of the gunfire from the call with Leanne and evidence from photos of

the bullet holes in the car were consistent with weapons used by the Israeli Army the seven family members including hen were buried at alifa hospital the Hamas run Health Ministry in Gaza now says more than 35,000 people have been killed so far in this war and more than 13,000 recorded as children Ra faky was the calming voice on the other end of the

line with hind she seen so much during her time as a red crescent dispatcher but it is the Innocence she heard on the call with hend that brings her to tears today I want to ask you about the call and while you were on the phone with with hen faky was back at work the day after Hinn's body was found there were more calls to answer the office walls here pay

homage to her colleagues who've been killed 15 of them they say since the start of the war leaving many to wonder will there ever be Justice for those killed and will there be Justice for hind rup are you confident that there will be an investigation and that it will answer the questions of what actually happened [Music] Hinn's mother is staying at a

refugee camp in central Gaza enduring the unimaginable pain of losing a child and while surrounded by the horrors of this war she is moved by the way Hinn story has galvanized worldwide protest over the Bloodshed in Gaza she only hopes it will inspire those still fighting to choose peace our thanks to Marcus Moore for that story after the IDF initially

denied the their troops had been in the area when hin was killed a state department spokesperson told ABC news last week the Israelis quote told us there had in fact been IDF units in the area but the IDF claims they had no knowledge or involvement in the type of strike described"

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