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Casualties arrive at Shifa Hospital, Gaza City, after an attack on people digging graves for theirrelatives in the cemetery. Photo by AV, 20 Aug 20144. Other causes of death and injury4.1 Attacks on cemeteriesThe first FFM team were witness to the results of an attack on a cemetery duringtheir visit. They were present at the time the casualties from this attack were broughtto the Emergency Department of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City:On the morning of 21 August 2014, at about 09:15, the Emergency Departmentat Shifa Hospital received notification that several men who were digging thegraves for relatives who had just been killed were themselves attacked and werebeing evacuated to the Emergency Department. The scene that followed, althoughstressful, was orderly and well-organized with paramedic teams, some youth froman Eagle Scout troop as well as others who were volunteers from Jordan, receivingthe dead and wounded from the ambulances as they arrived. In total, there were sixincoming ambulances-each bearing a different insignia-some carrying two people.The paramedics were wearing gloves but the stretchers were ‘recycled’ without beingcleaned in between, still bearing the blood of the wounded who had been transportedbefore them. The team later witnessed several of those who were killed beingwheeled on stretchers from the Emergency Department, wrapped in white shrouds,their bodies to be handed over to their families for immediate burial. 94The consequences of another attack on a cemetery were observed by FFM teammember AV when she visited Gaza for the third time, on 11-12 November 2014. On94For a media item describing the incident see Maan News, 21 Aug 2014, at http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=722250 accessed 24 Nov 2014.52