Pleas for rescue in Gaza: A film to honour the voice of Hind Rajhab
The Voice Of Hind Rajab is based on a true story, and opens in Ireland on January 16.
When Kaouther Ben Hania heard Hind Rajab’s voice for the first time, she was in Los Angeles airport scrolling through social media. The five-year-old’s cry for help cut through the clamour around her. This was in February 2024 and Hind had already been dead for at least a week, left to bleed out among the corpses of six of her relatives after their car was targeted by an Israeli tank, leaving it with 335 bullet holes, according to the Forensic Architecture research group.
More than 20,000 Palestinian children were killed in two years of Israeli bombardment of Gaza, according to UN estimates. Dozens more have been killed since October 10, 2025, when a ceasefire was declared and then routinely breached.
