Gaza Herald – For three days, Ghada Rabah, clung to life beneath the rubble of her home near al-Maliya Square in Gaza. Israeli warplanes had flattened the house, trapping her with her children and relatives under concrete and dust. From beneath the ruins, she managed to call her family, proving she was still alive. Her relatives pleaded with the Red Cross and civil defense, but the Israeli military blocked every attempt to rescue her.
After 72 agonizing hours, Israel finally granted permission for rescue teams to reach the site. But when they arrived, they discovered the house had already been bombed a second time and completely leveled. The Israeli strike killed Ghada, her children, and everyone else still buried beneath the rubble. No one survived.
This was not an accident of war, it was a deliberate act of annihilation. Israel first buried Ghada alive, then ensured her killing by targeting the rubble again, knowing she was trapped beneath it.
The case mirrors the tragedy of Hind Rajab, the six-year-old girl left stranded in a car filled with her slain family earlier this year. Hind’s cries for help were broadcast to the world as rescue workers begged for safe passage. Hours later, her lifeless body was found, alongside the destroyed ambulance that had been dispatched to save her. Ghada’s story is another chapter in the same pattern: pleas for life met with bombs, and rescue itself turned into a killing sentence.
