The Guardian has won a prestigious Amnesty media award for the interactive reconstruction Countdown to the airstrike: the moment Israeli forces hit al-Jalaa tower, Gaza, showing the race to evacuate residents of a block of flats before their homes were turned to rubble. The Best Use of Digital Media award was given to the Guardian’s Global Development reporter Kaamil Ahmed and interactive designer Garry Blight, Airwars’ Joe Dyke and the Gaza-based journalist Anas Baba for their use of video, images and audio captured by the residents of al-Jalaa tower in the hour after Israeli forces called to tell them it would be demolished. “Kaamil Ahmed, Joe Dyke and others – it’s a well-deserved win. Thanks for your relentless work on this,” said Kai Akram, media manager at Amnesty International UK, who was on the judging panel. Airwars, which tracks and investigates harm to civilians in conflict zones, collaborated with the Guardian for the piece. It said the study “told the shocking story of the al-Jalaa tower’s destruction through the eyes of residents”.