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2.7 Otherfourth floor of a 9-story building. The extendedfamily was then together, including the patient’sfather, mother, two brothers and their wives andchildren, two sisters and their husbands andchildren, and his own wife and two children. On theevening of the incident, the family were preparingfor the daily breaking of the Ramadan fast. Thepatient’s mother, wife, 2 sisters, 2 sisters-in-lawand all the children were in the back room cooking;the father, 2 brothers, 2 brothers in law and thepatient himself were in the front room, and somechildren were also playing in the hall between thetwo rooms. The apartment was suddenly hit by amissile or two missiles (in the first interview he said2 on the building; in the second he said one on theapartment-Ed.) from an F-16 aircraft. There was nowarning. Three floors of the building were targeted:the one he was on and the floors above and belowit. He found himself on the floor, covered in dustand bleeding from his leg; he felt the burns andhis broken bones. Across the hallway he saw hismother under rubble and one of his children, his son,beneath her. Both looked dead. The house was fullof smoke.Others killed/injured in same event: The patient’swife, two children, two sisters, all female in-laws,all nieces and nephews and his mother were killed.The only survivors apart from himself are his father,brothers and brothers-in-law. (The informationregarding the deaths of others was only providedat the second interview; the first interview includeddetails only about the patient’s own injury-Ed.)Evacuation and care inside Gaza: The patient’sbrother came to ask him to leave the building withhim. At first he refused because he could not movebut then his brother helped him down the stairs andhe was taken by private car to Shifa Hospital. Theyarrived within 10 minutes of the incident. There hereceived external fixation and was transferred toAl Quds Hospital for two more days for supervisionand antibiotics.Evacuation out of Gaza: The patient was transferredto Maqassad Hospital in East Jerusalem on 24 Jul2014. The ambulance waited for 45 minutes before2. Gaza City161