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The Voice of Hind Rajab is the most powerful and moving film that I have seen in recent memory. The movie was screened at the G5A in Mumbai after India’s Central Board of Film Certification finally allowed its release. In March, the Censor Board had blocked the release of the film claiming it would spoil India’s relationship with Israel.
Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl, was trapped in a car that Israeli soldiers had shot at in Gaza in January 2024. Her relatives were killed but Hind hid between the seats and after her uncle established phone contact with her, he passed on her number to the Red Crescent, a truly heroic group of international and Palestinian volunteers who co-ordinate search and rescue operations from the West Bank.
The volunteers did all they could to keep Hind’s morale up over the phone as they attempted to obtain permission from the Israelis military to send an ambulance to her. Many volunteers have been killed by Israel during similar rescue missions, so official permission was crucial. The Israeli military controlled all roads and permissions were endlessly delayed, as it turns out, perhaps deliberately so.
The 70 minutes of Hind’s phone recordings made over a day are the heartbeat of the...