Fouad Qattaya and Ali Younes, detained by the Israeli army. (Illustration by Celine Bejjani)
On the morning of Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, just hours before Israel would take him as prisoner, Fouad Qattaya was driving his two sons, Ali, 14, and Jawad, 10, to school, when the younger pleaded, “Please don’t go to Shaqra today. It’s too dangerous.”“Don’t worry, I’ll be back in time to drive you home from school,” Qattaya reassured him.Qattaya, 43, who works in aluminum installation, was headed to a site in Shaqra (Bint Jbeil) — where residents began returning to when the cease-fire came into effect on Nov. 27, 2024 — with his business partner and nephew, Ali Younes, 33. According to his client, the two never reached their destination. Another workday turned into a disappearance 'Dad promised me we'd go out for lunch': Ali Fneich, 36, abducted at sea off Naqoura, June 4, 2025 Ahmad Shukur, a former prisoner who was released by...
On the morning of Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, just hours before Israel would take him as prisoner, Fouad Qattaya was driving his two sons, Ali, 14, and Jawad, 10, to school, when the younger pleaded, “Please don’t go to Shaqra today. It’s too dangerous.”“Don’t worry, I’ll be back in time to drive you home from school,” Qattaya reassured him.Qattaya, 43, who works in aluminum installation, was headed to a site in Shaqra (Bint Jbeil) — where residents began returning to when the cease-fire came into effect on Nov. 27, 2024 — with his business partner and nephew, Ali Younes, 33. According to his client, the two never reached their destination. Another workday turned into a disappearance 'Dad promised me we'd go out for lunch': Ali Fneich, 36, abducted at sea off Naqoura, June 4, 2025 Ahmad Shukur, a former prisoner who...