In Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood, tragedy has struck again, almost on the same ground where six-year-old Hind Rajab became a symbol of Gaza’s suffering last year. This time, the victims were teacher Ghada Rabah and her brother Hossam, killed when their home was bombed in the midst of unrelenting Israeli attacks on the city’s western quarters.

For two days, Ghada’s cries for help echoed from beneath the rubble, carried further by phone calls and desperate appeals on social media. Civil defence teams, only able to move after Red Cross coordination, reached the site under cover of night. But by then, the house had been bombed again, leaving only silence beneath the ruins.

The echoes of Ghada’s pleas intertwine with Hind Rajab’s voice that still haunts Gaza’s collective memory. Hind had survived a tank strike that obliterated her family in January 2024, only to die later after days trapped in a shattered car, begging over the phone: “Take me… I’m very scared, please come.” Her story became a symbol of the deliberate targeting of civilians, condemned internationally as a war crime.

Now, Ghada’s fate deepens the same unanswered question: how many voices must be silenced before the world moves to halt a war that makes no distinction between a child seeking refuge and a woman trapped in her own home?