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5.1 RafahCircumstances of injury: The patient’s 9 familymembers (parents and seven children) werewatching TV that morning. They were having sometea and breakfast and watching the news to knowwhat had happened during the night. There was nobarrage on the area at the moment of the attack.Unexpectedly, the house was hit by a drone missile.The patient was severely wounded in the head.The witness, the patient’s aunt, said that theneighbourhood was well known to the Israeli army,since there had been settlers near there in the pastand many families used to work for them and havesome kind of relationship with them. She thinksthat the attack was not an accident, since thehouse was hit twice till its complete demolition (seecomments on displacement, below-Ed).Others killed/injured in same event: The patient’sfather and mother (aged 40 and 37 respectively)were killed and his 6 siblings were wounded.Evacuation and care inside Gaza: After the strike,some neighbours gathered the bodies in blanketsand fled, fearing new attacks from the drone, whichwas still flying over the house. About ten minuteslater ambulances came and took the injured andthe dead (badly mutilated) to the Emirati Hospital,where most patients were evacuated after theattack on Yousef Al Najjar Hospital 19 . In EmiratiHospital the staff realized immediately the gravityof his injuries and referred him to the EuropeanHospital in Khan Younis where he remained until hewas sent to St Joseph Hospital in East Jerusalem.Evacuation out of Gaza: The patient was transferredon 10 Aug 2014 to St Joseph Hospital in EastJerusalem, passing through Erez Crossing withoutany issues regarding procedure. The patient remainsin ICU, unconscious and ventilated.Comments on displacement: Two days afterthe incident the house was shelled again andcompletely destroyed, so that the children, whowere orphaned, are now also homeless.5. Southern Gaza / Rafah19Abu Youssef Al Najjar Hospital was attacked and damaged on 1 August2014, evacuated on 2 Aug and re-opened on Aug 6. See http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/61E3465681FA01A385257D2D00502615. Patients and staffwere referred to the Kuwait Specialised / Field Hospital in Rafah, or to the HilalEmirati Maternity Hospital in Rafah.209