Last weekend in bars or cafes in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Israeli soldiers will have been bragging about the Palestinians they shot like farmers shoot rats. A couple of tank crew members will have been talking about their role in the protracted murder of five-year-old Hind Rajab whom they obliged to stay in a bullet filled car for hours with the corpses of family members before finishing her off and murdering the ambulance crew which had come to rescue her.

No doubt, some members of COGAT the Israeli agency for calibrating the rate of extermination in the Gaza death camp, who know precisely what was happening will have had a good laugh too.

The Voice of Hind Rajab is the most distressing film you will ever see. I saw a couple of people leave the cinema in tears and I felt like I had been punched in the chest. You leave the cinema filled with a rage not just against the genocidal IDF as an abstraction, but against Netanyahu’s willing executioners in its ranks. The teachers, IT technicians, shop workers who have enthusiastically engaged in a war of extermination for over two years.

There is no doubt that the IDF, an organisation which monitors every Palestinian phone call, knew precisely who was in the car. Rather than kill the child early on, or God forbid, pull her out of the car, they deliberately put her through hell for hours before killing her. She was just about old enough to understand the difference between death and sleeping and they used that to make sport with her, knowing all along what they would do when the ambulance arrived.

The film cuts between scenes with actors playing the Palestinian Crescent workers and clips of their conversations with Hind. Their manager explains the deliberately convoluted procedure the Israelis established to communicate with Palestinian rescue teams. Its only discernible purpose is to maximise the suffering and deaths of Palestinians. It is no surprise that the Red Crescent staff, who by this point had been dealing with the slaughter of their people and colleagues for a year, were showing clear signs of trauma. Yet they persevered.

But you leave filled with rage not just against the IDF, but for all their enablers in British, European and American politics – the ones who proudly call themselves Zionists and friends of Israel. They should all be forced to watch a screening of this film. An ambulance could have reached Hind within eight minutes and their Zionist army for its own barbarous, racist amusement put her through hell for hours.

This is an important film. If the 20th century gave us Anne Frank as a symbol of a child murdered by genocidal racists, the 21st has given us Hind Rajab.

You need to see this film.

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