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Mine sweeping device, Khuza’a (Tsefa Shirion? ).Photo by HPH, 10 Sep 2014Mine sweeping device, detail.Photo by AV, 10 Sep 2014was characterised by a similar pattern of attack: multiple strikes hit the teamsattempting to evacuate those injured by previous attacks. 22 Palestine RedCrescent Society (PRCS) staff interviewed by the first FFM team emphasisedthis pattern as a key cause of injuries and deaths among evacuating medicalteams. 232.1.2 Heavy explosives and indiscriminate attacksMany of the deaths in Gaza from this war were reported as being caused by the useof large amounts of powerful explosives in indiscriminate ways, typically destroyinglarge swathes of residential areas and causing mass casualties, not only in targetedhouses but also in neighbouring dwellings.• The second FFM team witnessed the stark results of this policy on their visit toShuja’iya in Gaza City, which was the site of extensive attacks of this type. 24• The second FFM team also witnessed the results of powerful airstrikes launchedon the last 3 days of the offensive, causing devastation to high-rise multiapartmentblocks in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza and in Gaza City. 25• During the second FFM team’s site visit to Khuza’a in the Khan Younis area, 26 theywere shown a barrel-shaped explosive container described by local residentsas an ‘explosive barrel’, left on the ground in an area of residential destruction.22For more detail on this see Chapter 3. ‘Attacks on medical personnel and medical facilities’ below, and interview sortcodesMED2 and EJM1.23PRCS coordinator, interviewed in Gaza on 19 Aug 2014 by the first FFM team, full name redacted and retained in the officesof PHR-Israel.24Visits by members of the second FFM team on 12 and 14 September.25For a media account of the destruction of the Al Zafer building, in which 22 people were wounded by a double airstrike, seethe Guardian, 24 Aug 2014, at http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/24/gaza-strikes-destroy-highrises , accessed23 Nov 2014. For descriptions of further strikes on high-rise buildings see Al Jazeera English, 26 Aug 2014, at http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/08/gaza-high-rise-hit-israeli-rockets-2014825213929205207.html , accessed 23 Nov 2014.26See Part C. ‘Khuza’a - focus and site visit’ below.35