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Meetings and site visits were held in medical facilities and in the community, andincluded interviews with victims, survivors and witnesses, healthcare professionalsand human rights workers. The FFM teams also interviewed officials working withthe World Health Organisation (WHO), as well as officials from the Ministry of Healthand Ministry of Justice in Gaza. Additional representatives of medical bodies wereinterviewed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Each FFM team member hada camera to record findings. Notes were taken on site, and wherever possible originalmedical files and photos were copied.The forensic experts did not perform autopsies but examined patients and medicalfiles, and reviewed photographic materials from the morgue of Gaza’s main hospital,Shifa Hospital, in Gaza City. Their work is detailed further below, at 2.3 ‘Forensicpathology’; in Part B, 1. ‘Types and patterns of injuries,’ and in Appendix 2 of this report.Throughout this report the members of the two teams of the Fact-Finding Mission(FFM) who visited Gaza are referred to as the ‘first FFM team’ and the ‘second FFMteam’, respectively. When referred to together they are cited as ‘the FFM teams.’2.2 Interviews with injured hospitalised patients,29 July 2014 – 11 September 2014In addition to the two visits to Gaza, members of the FFM teams and of PHR-Israel’sstaff developed a questionnaire 19 to document systematically and with uniformity theexperience of people who had been injured during the armed conflict. Sixty-eight (68)residents of Gaza who had been injured in the course of the attacks and hospitalisedas a result were interviewed in different referral hospitals, summarised in the tablebelow:Hospital Location PatientsinterviewedShifa Hospital Gaza City, Gaza Strip 3Al Quds Hospital Gaza City, Gaza Strip 1St. Joseph Hospital East Jerusalem 23Maqassad Hospital East Jerusalem 18Najah Hospital Nablus, West Bank 7Abu Raya Rehabilitation Centre Ramallah, West Bank 2Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation Beit Jala, West Bank 1Medinat Hussein Al Tibbeya Hospital Amman, Jordan 11Other 20 2Total 6819See Appendix 1 for a copy of the questionnaire.20One patient was interviewed at Erez Crossing on his return home, and not at a hospital (interview sortcode Erez1); onemedic who had been injured during medical evacuation work was interviewed at his home (interview sortcode MED1).21