Physicians for Human Rights-Israel
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights-Gaza
Gaza Community Mental Health Programme
Palestinian Center for Human Rights-Gaza
Gaza, 2014 Findings of an independent medical fact-finding mission Writing, research and images: Jutta Bachmann | Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven | Hans Petter Hougen | Jennifer Leaning | Karen Kelly | Önder Özkalipci | Louis Reynolds | Alicia Vacas Fieldwork and research coordination: Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights-Gaza, Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, Palestinian Center for Human Rights-Gaza. Editing and coordination: Miri Weingarten Design: David Moscovitz | Studio David and Yosef Print: Total Ayalon Grahpics Map of the Gaza Strip sourced from UN OCHA; map of Khuza’a sourced from www.openstreetmap.org. The pictures on the cover and pages 11, 12, 26, 27, 77, 78, 97, 98, 103, 228, 230 are sourced from Activestilles/ Anne Paq. Physicians for Human Rights-Israel would like to thank the following individuals and organisations for their support, financial and otherwise, of the fact-finding mission and its report: Marwan Diab and Rafeeq Musallam, ActiveStills/ Anne Paq, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Science and Human Rights Program, British Shalom-Salaam Trust (UK), Christian Aid (UK), Comboni Sisters, HEKS-EPER (Switzerland), Manos Unidas (Spain), Medact (UK), Medico International (Germany), Dignity Institute (Denmark), Inge Genefke and Bent Sørensen Anti Torture Support Foundation (Denmark), IRCT (Denmark), Open Society Foundations. The editor of this report would like to thank the following individuals for their assistance: Melanie De Campos, Indrajit Ghosh, Yosh Kosminsky, Richard Kuper, Georgia Nash, Bård Røtzer, Eddie Thomas and the two Zeinas. The authors and editor of this report express their deep gratitude to the many witnesses, victims and survivors who shared their stories in the interests of justice.
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