5-year-old girl found dead in Gaza weeks after phone calls for help

The body of a five-year-old girl has been found in Gaza, almost two weeks after her cousin made calls for help to the Palestinian Red Crescent, that she and five of her family members, who were fleeing the war-torn enclave in their car, had come under attack from an Israeli tank.

The Hamada family, who was among more than 80 per cent of Gaza’s population evacuating their homes, encountered the Israeli tank on January 29 near a gas station in Gaza City.

Layan, 15, made the calls hiding in the car, saying that the tank was near their car.

Everyone in the vehicle was dead, except her and her six-year-old cousin, Hind.