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In two cases the team was told of warnings that were not followed by an attack.• Mahmoud Daher, head of the WHO sub-office in Gaza, 58 told the second FFMteam of one case in which a health care worker at Shifa Hospital received ananonymous call identified only as ‘IDF,’ warning of an impending attack onnorthern Gaza. The evacuation call caused a state of panic until the hospitalcalled the Israeli military for confirmation. About 10 minutes later, the armyannounced that they were ‘not responsible’ for this call. 59• One other person interviewed by the team 60 reported that a telephone warningwas given after midnight to a neighbour in the same high-rise apartmentbuilding where he lived, Susi Tower in Gaza City, to evacuate the entire buildingwithin 5 minutes. This caused panic and mayhem among the occupants. Thewarning came on the night of 25 August 2014, the same night on which twoother buildings, Al Basha and the Italian Tower, were completely destroyed.However, their building was not attacked.2.3.3 Effective warnings leading to destruction of homesApart from the patient interviews, the FFM teams heard of 7 cases of ‘effective’ warningsfrom other interviewees, which led to the destruction of homes without involving deathand injury. All such warnings caused high anxiety and frenzied attempts at exit, withthe recipients having no way of knowing whether the attack would follow within 3minutes or 3 hours, or possibly not at all. The details of these cases are as follows:58Interview held in Gaza, 11 Sep 2014 by KK and AV.59According to a WHO Situation Report from 6 Aug 2014 both Shifa and Abu Yussuf Al Najjar Hospitals received telephonewarnings on 1 Aug 2014, causing panic. The warning to the latter hospital was followed by an attack, causing significantdamage. The outpatient department of Shifa Hospital had been attacked prior to that date, on 28 Jul 2014, injuring severalpeople.60Interview held 8 Sep 2014 in Tel Al Hawa, Gaza City with Basel Diab, 33, an agricultural engineer who worked for the PAsecurity forces and became unemployed after 2007. He had previously lost his home during the attacks of 2008-2009.42