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The adultification of Palestinian children has consequences and needs to stop | Arwa Mahdawi
Hind Rajab was six years old when she was killed in Gaza. So why did a CNN host refer to her as ‘a woman’?
Trapped in a bullet-ridden car in Gaza City, surrounded by her dead relatives, six-year-old Hind Rajab pleaded with the Red Crescent for help. That help, in the form of a medical team, eventually came – only to be slaughtered on arrival. Hind was killed, too, her decomposing body found weeks later.
This piece was amended on May 4 2024 to clarify that the CNN anchor corrected the mistake about Hind being a woman and said she had misspoken.
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