Another Take: The story of Hind Rajab
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Every Saturday, we revisit a story from the archives. This originally aired on Saturday, Feb 18, 2025. None of the dates, titles, or other references from that time have been changed.
Six-year-old Hind Rajab spent three hours on the phone with Palestinian emergency services, crying for help, stranded in a car under Israeli fire in Gaza. Her relatives were killed while trying to escape. Twelve days later, she was found dead. What happened after Hind’s phone line went dark?
In this episode:
- Nebal Farsakh (@FarsakhNebal), Director of Media at the Palestine Red Crescent Society
- Rana Faqih, Disaster Preparedness and Response Coordinator
- Hisham Mhanna (@MhannaHesham), ICRC Spokesperson in Gaza
Episode credits:
This episode was updated by Amy Walters. The original production team was Amy Walters, Fahrinisa Campana, Miranda Lin, and Sarí el-Khalili, with our host Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our engagement producers are Adam Abou-Gad and Vienna Maglio. Aya Elmileik is lead of audience engagement. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:10.2 | Hi, I'm Amy Walters, a senior producer with a take, back with another take, where we bring you episodes from the past. |
| 0:19.5 | This year's Venice Film Festival |
| 0:21.3 | gave the voice of Hind Rajab a 23-minute ovation. |
| 0:30.8 | The film premiering at the festival |
| 0:33.0 | tells the story of Hind, |
| 0:35.2 | a six-year-old Palestinian girl |
| 0:37.3 | trapped in a vehicle alongside the bodies |
| 0:40.5 | of her family members, killed by the Israeli military as they tried to escape Gaza City in the winter |
| 0:47.5 | of 2024. A phone recording of Hind begging for help left many around the world asking what could be done to save her. |
| 0:58.1 | Twelve days later, she was found dead. |
| 1:02.0 | Independent experts appointed by the UN said the killing may amount to a war crime. |
| 1:08.4 | We shared her voice and her story here on the take. The episode originally |
| 1:13.6 | aired on February 18th, 2024. All dates and references are from that time. |
| 1:33.5 | Today, the story book a call for help in Gaza. |
| 1:46.3 | After seeing thousands of children killed in Israel's war on Gaza, why is the voice of Hind Rajab still ringing in many of our heads? |
| 1:53.7 | I'm Malika Bilal, and this is the take. Before we start this episode, a heads up that it contains content some listeners might |
| 2:10.1 | find disturbing. Every single day, the situation is just worsening and worsening four months with no food, no access to water, |
| 2:23.1 | no electricity, communication and blackouts. |
| 2:26.6 | We're talking about 10 times of communication and blackout in Gaza. |
| 2:34.0 | This is how Nibel Farsach describes life in Gaza after four months of war. |
| 2:41.8 | You don't have the luxury to just check on your relatives, your parents, your loved ones, |
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