A joint investigation by NGO Earshot and Al Jazeera into the killing of Palestinian child Hind Rajab and her family in Gaza City on January 29 challenges a claim by the Israeli military that they were not responsible for the attack.

Hind, a six-year-old Palestinian girl, was travelling in a car with her family when they came under fire from an Israeli tank. Six of her family members, including her sister, were killed.

Hind pleaded for help from the Palestine Red Crescent Society for three hours before they lost contact. When rescuers finally reached the scene 12 days later, they found that Hind, her family and two paramedics who had been sent to rescue her had all been killed.

The Israeli military had claimed that they didn’t have any troops in the area and denied carrying out the attack.

But a reconstruction of the incident, based on audio of the incident, shows that the Israeli tank from which the shots were fired “would have had a clear view of the car and the two children”, according to Earshot.