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Buses destroyed in the attack on MuhammadDeif׳s family, Sheikh Radwan, Gaza City.Photo by AV, 9 Sep 2014.Destruction in Shuja’iya.Photo by HPH, 9 Sep 2014.2.1.1 ‘Double tap’ 16 and multiple consecutive strikesMany of the FFM interviewees, including both emergency services staff and patients,reported a pattern of attack involving an initial strike, followed by a brief intervalduring which relatives, bystanders and/or rescuers gathered round the casualties,only to be struck by a second missile, causing multiple additional casualties. In othercases, double or multiple consecutive strikes were reported, often on a multi-storybuilding, in which after the first strike, while residents of the building were on theirway down the stairs or exiting the building, additional consecutive strikes causedfurther multiple casualties. This is a separate phenomenon from that of the socalled‘roof-tap warning’ strikes, which are discussed in No 2.3.1 below.• In the hospitalized patient interviews, 10 patients reported a ‘double tap’ pattern,in which the second strike caused the incident that injured them: three of thesewere described as drone strikes; 17 three described strikes from tank shells ormissiles; 18 two were from an F16 aircraft; 19 and, in two other cases, the source ofthe double strike was unknown to the patients. 20• In 5 other cases, patients reported multiple strikes from F16 aircraft with asimilar effect. Those running to assist people injured by previous strikes, orrunning to escape previous strikes, were then injured or killed by repeatedsubsequent strikes. 21• The 30 July 2014 attack on the Shuja’iya marketplace in the east of Gaza City16The term ‘double tap’ was first coined by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism to describe drone warfare tactics inthe Yemen and Pakistan. For a recent example, see BIJ data sheet, Drone Strikes in Pakistan, 1 Aug 2013, at http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2013/08/01/get-the-data-the-return-of-double-tap-drone-strikes/ , accessed 23 Nov 2014.17Interview sortcodes EJJ13, EJM3, J8.18Interview sortcodes EJM1, and, describing a single incident, EJM4 and EJM5.19Interview sortcodes EJJ21, GS220Interview sortcodes WBN2, EJJ1121Interview sortcodes EJ21, EJJ3, EJM10, J5, EJM734