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At 06:15 the ambulance moved some 50 meters when we were surprised by ashell which landed just in front of the vehicle. We were going very fast. We had tobrake. Suddenly I felt a shock like an earthquake, and I knew that the ambulancewas hit. When I looked around the driver was unconscious and I myself was verydizzy from a head injury.Thirty (30) seconds later a second missile hit the ambulance directly. The driverwas thrown out from the vehicle. I heard Fouad and the photographer calling me:‘Are you ok?’ I told them: ‘Get out and run. They are aiming at us!!!’ I tried to getout myself but my door was stuck and I couldn’t open it. I got ready for a suredeath and said a prayer. Then a drone (maybe, I am not sure about it) struck closeby and the door opened by itself, so I could run away.Fouad and the photographer were protected by a wall: there were trees close tothe road. I ran away from the ambulance towards them. Fouad asked: ‘Where canwe go?’ Bombs were literally ‘raining’ all around us. The photographer said: ‘Keepsquatting, to avoid shrapnel.’ He was still talking when a missile hit him on hisshoulder (I saw it, it was like fire flying towards him). I was thrown back by theblast. Drones and artillery were shelling at the same time. I was semi-conscious,with several injuries. I tried hard not to lose consciousness and called out forhelp. Close to me there was an old man, covered with blood, calling me. Therewas dense black smoke all around. Bombs kept falling for a long time. I knew thatFouad and the photographer could not have survived the attack.I woke up three hours later at Shifa Hospital and learned that Fouad and thephotographer had been martyred [description given to anyone killed in attacks byIsrael-Ed.]. The driver was injured. 76Case study: Shuja’iya, 30 July 2014Ten days later, a second mass-casualty attack on Shuja’iya took place on 30 July 2014between 16:00 and 17:00, just when a ceasefire had been declared and people weregoing out to the market with their families. Because roads had been destroyed or werecovered with rubble and debris, ambulances could not access the injured. 77 Accordingto PRCS, two paramedics died in this rescue operation, 3 PRCS staff were woundedand an ambulance was damaged.Three of the medical professionals interviewed by the FFM teams were injured whileevacuating the wounded during this second round of attacks on Shuja’iya, in themarketplace, on 30 July 2014. Their testimonies are reproduced in full in Appendix 1. 7876Dr. Diab Al Din Muhammad Abu Hussein, interviewed by the second FFM team on 9 Sep 2014 at the offices of Al MezanCenter for Human Rights in Gaza City. The photojournalist with Fouad Jaber was Khaled Reyadh Hamad: see CPJ news item,available at http://cpj.org/killed/2014/khaled-reyadh-hamad.php , accessed 7 Dec 2014. For another paramedic’s testimonyregarding the same event see Btselem testimony at http://www.btselem.org/testimonies/20140722_gaza_paramedic_ahmad_sabah , accessed 7 Dec 2014.77According to the PRCS coordinator, more than 250 people were injured in this incident; more than 23 people diedimmediately; 30-35 patients came to Al Quds Hospital, mostly with amputations and four of these people died. For mediacoverage of the incident see, inter alia, BBC news item from 30 July 2014, at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middleeast-28571785, accessed 23 Nov 2014.78Interview sortcodes MED1, MED2, EJM1.47