¹ The shape‑shifting story of Hind Rajab: how a fog‑of‑war tragedy was recast as a deliberate execution 🧵 The death of six‑year‑old Hind Rajab has become one of the most emblematic stories of this war, told and retold as an archetypal tale of ultimate atrocity — Israeli
² First, a few key facts about this incident: • On the morning of 29 January 2024, residents of Tel al‑Hawa neighborhood were urged to evacuate south. Nevertheless, several testimonies indicate that the car carrying Hind Rajab was driving north. • Starting from early
³ Unsurprisingly, the first major change Al Jazeera made in its next retelling — the reconstruction published on 22 February 2024 — was to claim that the car wasn't moving, but already stopped near a gas station, when tanks opened fire. That single adjustment — from a moving car
⁴ This was far from the only “adjustment” Al Jazeera made. Their own screenshots of WhatsApp messages between Hind’s uncle and the Red Crescent show that at 2:28 p.m. the uncle wrote (in Arabic): “They were at the Faris station. They were in a black Picanto. They got out and
⁵ Another critical part of the same WhatsApp exchange omitted in English narration is the last two messages in which Hind’s uncle notifies the Red Crescent that Hind's cousin Layan was killed. These messages were sent immediately after the Red Crescent asked the uncle to keep
⁶ The alleged call with Layan became the linchpin of Forensic Architecture’s investigation — the foundation of the “deliberate execution” claim. Yet even assuming the recording is genuine, the full audio tells a very different story. First, FA claimed that only one weapon type
⁷ FA also claimed — based on their 3D reconstruction — that Israeli tank crews had a “clear line of sight” to the children inside the car, implying a deliberate execution at close range. Yet multiple reports note that the girls were seated in the back, and in the recorded call,
⁸ As a sidenote, it’s worth mentioning that FA’s “investigation” was commissioned by Al Jazeera, and that FA were among the last “experts” still blaming the Al-Ahli hospital explosion on Israel — long after U.S. and French intelligence, as well as AP — and even HRW — concluded
⁹ Another aspect of the story that kept shifting was the car’s supposed destination — variously described as al-Ahli Hospital, the family’s home in northern Gaza City, or, in a later Al Jazeera interview with Hind’s mother, as “a town that’s further out”. The one thing common to
¹⁰ Equally, the timeline kept shifting. Early reports placed the start of the incident — the family’s departure and the firing on the car by Israeli forces — in the early afternoon, placing the first contact with the Red Crescent soon after the incident began. Forensic
¹¹ In summary, the inconsistencies outlined throughout this thread demonstrate how a battlefield encounter clouded by uncertainty in the midst of crossfire was gradually reframed into a narrative of deliberate atrocity. The evidence instead suggests a chaotic encounter in which
The full investigation, in article form with links to all the sources, can be found here: https://markzlochin.substack.c...
@MarkZlochin Didn't the FA article come up with the claim that the tank was less than 20 meters away from the car when the bullets were fired? How would the basic operating sounds of a tank not be heard in the call at that distance?
@MarkZlochin In early investigations, the IDF said that they were not operating in the area. Did that turn out just to be wrong? Any insight on why they said that? Thanks.
@ChaimBinyamin Cannot say for sure, but if I remember correctly the IDF spokesman unit made quite a few mistakes in the first months of the war and on several occasions issued premature response before they had all the information. My guess is that's what happened here as well.
@MarkZlochin זה אייל ויצמן התחיל עם זה, לא?
@naamuli84 לא מכיר
@MarkZlochin @grok summarise it for me the whole thread
@MarkZlochin @threadreaderapp unroll
@MarkZlochin I've been looking into this and can find no evidence that the child ever existed.
@MarkZlochin @Mr_Andrew_Fox Thank you for bringing this to light
@MarkZlochin Thank you for your thorough research, looks like these two didn’t get the memo. The damage is done, but the least we can do is set record straight and counter the propaganda and bias
@MarkZlochin I do remember pro-palestinian media kept pushing the story of the search of this girl for a week prior the discovery of her death. They had been setting up the stage for the story to come before the incident actually happened. For me she was a sacrificial lamb for propaganda
@MarkZlochin 🤬🤬
@MarkZlochin This is an especially prescient post today because the "Hind Rajab" foundation is behind the Maccabi ban; which necessitated gaslighting about what happened in Amsterdam. It's deeper though if the organization name *itself* is gaslighting!
@MarkZlochin You Zios are pissed off they you can't A slaughter Palanstains and get the world to love you for it and B have your racist horrendous IDF thug football fans do what they do. You getting challenged and now crying and making shit up as you go! No wonder Islam is booming
@MarkZlochin How do you feel about Holocaust deniers who manufacture doubt over Nazi Germanys crimes against Jewish people? Never fails to surprise me how Israel supporters become what they've always portrayed as evil. Your mind has been poisoned by a degenerate regime.
@MarkZlochin Excellent thread. Israel does a very poor job combating propaganda, which is admittedly endless. The idea that the IDF acted like Hamas and just gleefully murdered a young girl in a car was always nonsense. The motive here was to turn this into the al-Durrah case, a hoax.
@MarkZlochin Cheap attempt to divert from Hind’s heinous slaughter to conjectures over what may or may not have happened before. The recording was analyzed and concluded to be legit. You conveniently skip the part about the ambulance how it was cleared to rescue her but everyone was killed.
@MarkZlochin @Mr_Andrew_Fox A jew crying about shape shifting 😞
@MarkZlochin I think the negative part is the ambulance, the fact that it coordinated with COGAT and that COGAT did not know the situation on the ground, sending an ambulance. Without contacting the forces on the ground