"The killing of Hind Rajab" 21st June 2024

Working closely with journalists from Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines, Forensic Architecture collaborated with Earshot to examine the circumstances surrounding the killing of Hind Rajab, her four cousins, her aunt and uncle, and the two paramedics who came to her rescue....

On 29 January 2024, a six-year-old Palestinian child in Gaza City, Hind Rajab, pleaded over the phone for emergency workers to rescue her from a car riddled with bullets. Her body was found two weeks later, on 10 February, alongside the bodies of six of her family members in the car they drove to flee their neighbourhood as Israeli forces invaded...

A kinetic analysis of the position and state of the vehicle—rotation of the steering wheel, deformation of the tire, proximity of the driver’s side door to a street sign, and shape of the deformation of the bonnet and front bumper—suggests that the vehicle was pushed from the right-side front bumper. Furthermore, the shape of the depression of the windshield suggests that it was run over by a light vehicle such as an Israeli military bulldozer made by Caterpillar....

[The] range of rounds per minute is consistent with Israeli army-issued weaponry such as the M4 assault rifle or the FN MAG machine gun on a Merkava tank....