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Muhammad Qdeih׳s house, Khuza׳a. Photos by HPH, 10 Sep 2014. Left: damage to garage and side entrancemove. 23 Numerous tanks were in the area near the ambulances. While there they werenot allowed to use their cell phones. Only the head of the ambulance team was allowedto make telephone calls, and only from the ‘soldiers’ station’ (an occupied house) andunder the soldiers’ supervision. According to the PRCS coordinator, the ambulanceteam said they felt that they were being used as human shields by the soldiers.The PRCS coordinator stated that the coordination of ambulance access to Khuza’a followingthis incident took several days, which he said, was highly unusual even for this war.12. The Al Najjar homePCHR took the second FFM team to a house in Khuza’a (point 8 on the map) where,according to local residents, a pile of at least 6 corpses in advanced stages ofdecomposition were found in the bathroom. 24 There they observed organic remainson the floor and walls of the indicated room. In addition, marks of either shrapnelor gunfire were on the walls of this room. According to one person’s testimony, ahand grenade was thrown into the room causing these deaths. Others theorized thatgunfire or slitting of the victims’ throats was the causes of their death. Bullet casings,shrapnel, a grenade pin and knives were shown to the team on site. However, it wasnot possible to verify the validity of any of this evidence or to connect it to the deathas no first-hand accounts were available and the scene had been altered by outsiders.It should be noted that Al Mezan and PCHR are holding investigations into this case.23See also above, Para 9. The exact location is unclear, but it is likely to be near point 9 on the map.24An early published description of this case is in a 1 Aug 2014 media report by Jesse Rosenfeld of the Daily Beast, available athttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/01/who-is-behind-gaza-s-mass-execution.html , accessed 22 Nov 2014.93