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• In one interview with a displaced person from the neighbourhood of Beit Hanounin northern Gaza, 61 the family received a general evacuation notice to leave theneighbourhood, and did so. Their lives were saved but their home was completelydestroyed. 62• In another interview with displaced persons in the north of Gaza, 63 the 3-storyhome of 3 brothers, their families and their father was destroyed by an explosionafter two 5 minute warnings. The first warning was by telephone; the secondwas a ‘roof knock’ warning, described as ‘a small rocket that came through theroof.’ This warning was effective and the family narrowly escaped injury, but thedestruction caused by the main explosion resulted in the displacement of thisvery large extended family.• A case of effective and focused warning, demonstrating the ability of the Israelimilitary to attack with a very high level of precision as well as issue appropriatewarning when it so chooses, was recorded in an interview with ZakariyaMahmoud Muhammad Al Najjar, 64 who was displaced from Al Shati RefugeeCamp on 15 July 2014. Around 150 members of his extended family were livingin a 3-story building. His brother received a telephone call around 04:00, but didnot answer. Their neighbour was then called with the following message: ‘Tellthe Al Najjar family to evacuate in 7 minutes. We are going to target their house.’They described chaos in the house as they all fled taking nothing with them.The house was immediately targeted by a drone missile and 45 minutes laterby a larger missile from an Apache helicopter. When it was over, the intervieweewent back to the house with a cousin, to check if the chickens they kept on theroof were all killed. At that moment the neighbour received a second telephonecall saying: ‘Tell your neighbours to leave the chickens and leave the house’, sothey ran away. The house was targeted again from the back with missiles fromApache helicopters and F16 aircraft.The interviewees said they think their house was hit because there was aQassam launcher in the area; and because a collaborator gave the Israeli militarytheir name as those responsible for the rocket attack. The interviewee said thatthis collaborator was arrested by Hamas police and was among the 18 who werekilled during the war. 65 During the interviews, several neighbours and familymembers confirmed his account.• In one second-hand account received by the team, later corroborated by thevictim himself, the Head Nurse of the Emergency Department of Shifa Hospital 66told how the house of Dr. Nasser al Tattar, General Director of Shifa Hospital, hadbeen completely destroyed. The General Director had received a warning call onhis cell phone while at work in the hospital during Ramadan, in perfect Arabic,61Interview with Fadi Awuda, 42, held 8 Sep 2014 in Tel Al Hawa, by the second FFM team.62For further detail regarding the impact of destruction of homes see 6.1 ‘Destruction of homes and long term displacement’below.63Interview held 10 Sep 2014, in Beit Lahiya, by the second FFM team.64Interview held 8 Sep 2014 in Tel Al Hawa, Gaza City, by the second FFM team.65According to media and human rights reports, Hamas-associated gunmen publicly executed up to 25 people accused ofcollaboration with the Israeli military during Aug 2014. See e.g Human Rights Watch statement of 25 Aug 2014, available athttp://www.hrw.org/news/2014/08/25/gaza-halt-executions , accessed 7 Dec 2014.66Interview with the Head Nurse of Shifa Hospital held 20 Aug 2014 by LBR and AV.43