Hind Rajab: Gaza mother mourns girl, 6, found dead after being trapped under Israeli fire

The mother of Hind Rajab, the girl who was found killed in Gaza City nearly two weeks after she was last heard pleading with emergency dispatchers to rescue her from a car trapped by Israeli fire, described her devastation in an interview with NBC News.

TEL AVIV — For days, Hind Rajab’s mother had held on to hope that her six-year-old daughter was still alive — but on Saturday, she was clinging to all she had left of her child: A notebook, a pencil and a paper crown.

Twelve days after she went missing, Hind was found killed — her body still lying in the car from which she’d made a desperate plea for help while trapped under Israeli fire.

“This is the most difficult feeling, to lose your daughter,” Hind’s mother, Wissam Hamadah, told NBC News’ crew on the ground in Gaza. “This occupation did not have mercy on her.”

Just meters away from the battered and bullet-ridden vehicle, first responders and members of Hind’s own family also found a burned-out ambulance with the remains of the two first responders who tried to save her, the Palestine Red Crescent Society told NBC News.

“They killed her twice,” Hamadah said. “And killed the paramedics that were trying to save her.”

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