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Members of the second FFM team and an interpreter hold an interview with injured paramedicAkram Al Awoor at Al Quds Hospital, Gaza City. Photo by HPH, 10 Sep 2014Second FFM team: 8-14 September 17The second FFM team, comprised of 5 experts (one of whom was also a member ofthe first team), entered Gaza between 8 and 14 September, after the open-endedceasefire had begun. 18Additional visit: 11-12 NovemberTeam member Alicia Vacas returned to the Gaza Strip to complete collection of dataand interview some of the witnesses and patients a second time. Topics coveredincluded rehabilitation of the injured and events at Khuza’a (see 2.4 below).The FFM teams exited Gaza via the same route as they entered, at Erez Crossing.Each of the teams was briefed in PHR-Israel’s offices in Jaffa before entering Gaza,and debriefed after exit by staff from the organisation.In Gaza, meetings and access were facilitated by PHR-Israel’s staff in cooperation withlocal Palestinian human rights and medical non-governmental organisations: the AlMezan Center for Human Rights, the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme(GCMHP), the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza (PCHR). For interpretingpurposes team member Alicia Vacas, a fluent Arabic and English speaker, wasavailable for both FFM teams. In addition, fieldworkers of PHR-Israel, Al Mezan, PCHR,GCMHP and a professional interpreter accompanied the FFM teams to interviews.17Participants: Prof. Louis Reynolds, Prof. Hans Petter Hougen, Dr. Karen Kelly, Dr. Jennifer Leaning, Sister Alicia Vacas18Because of delays in the Israeli military permits procedures, only two members of the team entered on 8 September, andwere later joined by other members of the team as their permits were approved.20