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In Gaza, thousands of missing people may never be identified

The missing include the Palestinian detainees whose existence Israel refuses to acknowledge, those who disappear into Israeli prisons, and the bodies decomposing under the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes.

In Gaza, thousands of missing people may never be identified

A Palestinian climbs atop the rubble of the Ghafari Tower, destroyed by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, on Sept. 15, 2025. (Credit: Omar al-Qattaa/AFP)

For thousands of people in Gaza, like Farouk and Faysal, life is a constant story of survival, a desperate race against hunger. On Friday, April 18, 2025, these two brothers, aged 25 and 21 respectively, go searching for food around the abandoned houses of the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of eastern Gaza City. “Their older brother had already been killed. So, when they heard their little brother Fahed and their sisters Fayza and Fajr crying out of hunger, they decided to take a risk without telling me,” said their mother, Um Firas, on June 22 via WhatsApp. In numbers Gaza death toll underestimated by nearly 35%: Lancet The occupied enclave is engulfed in violence. The "cease-fire" that had taken effect between Israel and Hamas on Jan. 19, 2025, was shattered a mere three months later. Shuja'iyya had became one of the...
For thousands of people in Gaza, like Farouk and Faysal, life is a constant story of survival, a desperate race against hunger. On Friday, April 18, 2025, these two brothers, aged 25 and 21 respectively, go searching for food around the abandoned houses of the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of eastern Gaza City. “Their older brother had already been killed. So, when they heard their little brother Fahed and their sisters Fayza and Fajr crying out of hunger, they decided to take a risk without telling me,” said their mother, Um Firas, on June 22 via WhatsApp. In numbers Gaza death toll underestimated by nearly 35%: Lancet The occupied enclave is engulfed in violence. The "cease-fire" that had taken effect between Israel and Hamas on Jan. 19, 2025, was shattered a mere three months later. Shuja'iyya had became one of...
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