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Damaged UNRWA shelter, JabaliaElementary Girls School, north Gaza.Photo by OO, 19 Aug 2014Damage to wall, UNRWA shelter, JabaliaElementary Girls School, north Gaza.Photo by LBR, 19 Aug 2014in the street. The patriarch of the Abu ‘Ilba family told the team that 35 otherbuses had been damaged. According to another member of the Abu ‘Ilba family,interviewed by the FFM team in his damaged apartment, which was adjacentto the place of the attack, the impact of the blast was so great inside theirapartment that his daughter, a 2-month-old baby girl, was thrown up in the airfrom a bed she was lying on, her head hitting the ceiling of the room, causinghead trauma. 31 The entire building in which this event had occurred was notedto be damaged and empty on the day of the team’s visit. According to the familymembers, the authorities were still determining whether the building would behabitable with repairs; in the interim, all its residents were displaced.• In the patient interviews, 3 of the patients reported their injuries within thecontext of the use of huge amounts of explosives, destroying several structuressimultaneously. 32• The patient interviews suggest that even when precision weapons were usedagainst specific targets, such as individual apartments, these were liable tocause shrapnel, blast or damage to neighbouring homes and passers-by. Fivehospitalised patients interviewed by the teams reported being injured as aresult of shrapnel, damage or blast from attacks on neighbouring homes. 3331According to her father she was hospitalised and released after a few days.32Interview sortcodes GS1, GS2, J933Interview sortcodes EJM6, WBN5, WBN, Erez1 and EJJ23. The injury in interview sortcode J12 resulted from an attack ona car outside the patient’s house; in interview sortcode EJM18 the injury resulted from an attack on open land near thepatient; and in interview EJJ25 the injury was caused by the collapse of a building’s roof when a neighbouring apartment wasattacked.37

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