"wounded but alive, Hind (known as Hanood) stayed on the phone with a Red Crescent call center in Ramallah for several hours while dispatchers and emergency workers tried to send an ambulance out to her."
"The incident, captured via voice recordings and eventually broadcast to the world, provoked mass outrage everywhere, including a fresh round of protests in Europe and the U.S. But that was more than a few outrages ago at this point, and much of the world has become numb to unspeakable atrocity in the meantime. Nowadays, the image of human pieces being pulled out of gnarled rubble is just something we casually scroll past."
Kaouther Ben Hania's film centers on the January 2024 killing of six-year-old Hind Rajab, who was trapped in a car strafed with bullets while her family attempted to evacuate Gaza City's Tel al-Hawa under Israeli army orders. Wounded but alive, Hind stayed on the phone with a Red Crescent call center in Ramallah for several hours while dispatchers and emergency workers tried to send an ambulance. The voice recordings were broadcast widely and provoked mass outrage and fresh protests in Europe and the U.S. A Venice press screening produced unusually prolonged applause that continued through most of the end credits, signaling a powerful audience reaction.
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