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Gaza- At the dawn of the war on October 7, 2023, Muhammad was standing in front of the mirror, laid his hair while he was “migrant in God and bid farewell to his family”, then he perfumes before he bid farewell to his wife and his four children, to bring out a participant in the Palestinian resistance attack on Gaza’s cover settlements, without return.
His wife Alaa stands after more than a year and a half of this absence in front of the mirror itself, commenting on it a paper on which she made “what is narrower to live without the space of hope.”
“I live in a state of separation, sometimes I see that it is more important to be a martyr to receive the torment of prisons, but when I am exhausted by education and the longing drains me, I hope that he will be a prisoner who spends his sentence and then returns to me,” she says to Al -Jazeera Net.
The heaviness of the unknown fate
A confusion that makes her helpless in front of her children who do not stop asking about their father, as it is difficult for her to explain to them the meaning of the “unknown fate” so she can only answer them with tears and ask for supplication to him, and she explains Alaa, “My child (8 years) did not despair of repeated contact attempts every night on her closed father’s phone, and she insists on me that she wants to hear his voice for only one minute.”
While the night passes heavy on her as concerns and ideas are chased, the sound of her questions is overwhelmed “even if he is a martyr, will he be a body or become bones? Will I be able to bid him farewell? Will they deliver his body? Will I accept that this does not happen?”, Alaa asks that you could not get used to his absence or fill his empty space in her life and the life of her suspended children Its content.
It is a confusion that sweeps the hearts of hundreds of families in a desire to know the fate of their children, whose reasons were lost, but there are milestones in which thousands of Palestinians were lost during the war starting from their first day, a move to lose hundreds during their crossing the axis of Natsarim separating the two parts of the Gaza Strip in the north and south, in addition to the land invasions of the northern Gaza Strip and Hamad Hospital in Khan Yunis and recovery in Gaza.
“Contact anyone to make us from the house now, the tanks at the entrance to the house, and the neighboring architecture is burning.” This was the content of the recent contact of the doctor Ahmed Murtaja with his displaced daughter in the southern Gaza Strip, after the Israeli blockade of the Al -Shifa Medical Complex square after the surprising occupation attack in March 2024, after which he lost contact with him and her brother who were together in their apartment next to the hospital.
Likely attempts and communications that did not stop with the Red Cross made by Alaa, to try to evacuate them in vain, to become their fate since then, a state of confusion experienced by the families of the missing, especially with the inconsistency of news and inaccurate information that reach them from various sources.
“The occupation published a video clip of its soldiers stormed our house with their dogs, but when my brother came after the withdrawal to inspect them, the house found a woolen, which raised the ceiling of our expectations that they were bodies under the rubble,” Alaa told Al -Jazeera Net.
Bones without identity
While acquaintances and friends offered condolences, a prisoner came out of the Negev prison and said that he saw her father, which increased their confusion and confusion, and the family began a journey to search and trace the effects of the doctor and his son after repeating news from the freed prisoners to see him.
However, the occupation – and through human rights institutions – refused to provide any information about their fate and remained denying their presence in Israeli prisons, which means their disappearance forcibly, a description called people who have clear implications for their presence in prisons from eyewitnesses who saw them at the moment of arrest, or from editors they saw inside the prisons, but the occupation denies this and refuses to provide information about them.
The rubble under it also hides another tragedy and a new face without features of loss, as the rubble includes the remains of thousands of the bodies of the Palestinians without being able to retrieve them because of the lack of heavy equipment designated to raise the cement ceilings applied to their bodies, which forced Salim Abu Aghbat to dig his hands only 3 months ago to recover 25 individuals from his family from under the layers of their house that collapsed over them after being targeted in Jabalia’s last invasion last October.
With patience that does not resemble the patience of humans, Salim did not despair of searching for his family, carrying a bag of straw that opens him while he was talking to Al -Jazeera Net.
While the only survivor’s eyes are not able to hide his shock from the situation in which he lives, as Al -Jazeera Net asked him if he could limit the bodies that he had recovered 3 months ago until today, and he said, “I do not know how much I buried or from the burial, I did not find a complete body or a stuck, just as I could not distinguish anyone from another, except for my brother’s daughter who had the remains of her black hair, and my brother who knew him from his wallet.”
He is silent with his eyes hanging in rubble before he continued, “What is most hurt is that my mother was lost under the rubble, she has no face to accept him, and there is no hand to her.”
Selim’s story was not just an individual tragedy, but rather a painful title for hundreds of tragic stories that the people of Gaza live in, in which the loss exceeds the meaning of loss, and extends to despair from finding a trace, there is no farewell, no prayer, no funeral, but the ruins of homes that are similar to great graves that people lead to the glory of the remnants of the memory and the crumbs of bodies.
Israel’s intransigence
As the government media office revealed to Al -Jazeera Net that the number of missing persons during the war on Gaza is estimated at 11 thousand, including martyrs who did not reach the hospitals and their fate is still unknown, a number of Palestinian statistics centers put the missing persons under the rubble outside the classification because their fate is known and if they are not recovered, and these their numbers range according to their statistics from 6 to 8 thousand missing.
Ghazi Al -Majdalawi, an official in the Field Research Unit at the Palestinian Center for the missing, revealed that there is difficulty in restricting their number, or reaching a final statistic, “The number of numbers will remain increasing with the continuation of the military operations that did not stop on the sector.”
Al -Majdalawi emphasized that the occupation refuses to enter the DNA examination needed to identify the identity of the unidentified martyrs before their burial, adding its call to the Ministry of Health to collect the bodies of unidentified in the special mass graves until the genetic fingerprint checks are provided to identify their owners.
He pointed out that 315 bodies were handed over by the occupation in containers through the Red Cross 4 times varying, and they arrived analyzing without the slightest clarification of their data or places of kidnapping, within the framework of what was announced that it was a search for the bodies of the Israeli prisoners, which made it difficult to identify them without the presence of DNA tests.
He also called on the families of the missing persons to interact with the links to the registration of the missing persons, as they were able to know the fate of a number of them through continuous research and their families were informed of that.
The center criticizes the absence of a serious move in the file of the missing persons, calling on international institutions to lead an urgent humanitarian process to work to reveal the fate of thousands of them in Gaza, and “it is a right guaranteed by international laws and covenants in the conflict areas.”