The Israeli military has acknowledged for the first time that it opened fire on the vehicle carrying five-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza and said it had opened a criminal investigation into the killing.

Israel’s military on Wednesday announced its first criminal investigations into troop conduct in the war in Gaza, focusing on the killings of 5-year-old

The Palestinian girl died after being trapped in a car for hours while begging for help, in one of the highest-profile incidents in the war.