The incident was also investigated by the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict. Khaled Abd Rabbo told the mission members that he came out along with his wife and three children when heard an order by the IDF soldiers, all of them holding white flags.[13] According to the report published in September 2009, the Mission found Khaled and Kawthar Abd Rabbo to be credible and reliable witnesses and it had no reason to doubt the veracity of the main elements of their testimony, which it says is consistent with the accounts it received from other eyewitnesses and NGOs.[14] The report concludes that the Israeli soldiers deliberately shot at the family members, as they could not perceive any danger from the house, its occupants or the surroundings.