(11 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Zawaida, Gaza Strip – 20 November 2024
1. Various of Reem Ajour with her son outside their tent
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Reem Ajour, her daughter and husband are missing:
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"It is very difficult. I am tormented every second. A child like this child, why should he lose his father? What have I done not to know if my daughter is alive? To find any information about my husband and my daughter, I went to many associations and institutions. Until now, I have not received any news about them. For 8 months, I have been pleading to receive any news about my husband and my daughter."
3. Various of Reem Ajour showing photos on her phone of her missing daughter and husband, as her son sits next to her
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 20 November 2024
4. Various of Ahmed Alghrabli, son of Mohamed Alghrabli, digging through rubble with his bare hands
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Alghrabli, son of Mohamed Alghrabli, who has gone missing:
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"We are sure that my father is dead. But we want to know where. No one can tell us where. We can’t sleep, we can’t rest. Our father is missing, I think he’s dead. But where is he? Is he with the (Israeli) occupation? Did they shoot him? Did they bury him?"
6. Various of Sabah Abdul-Salam, 71, wife of Mohamed Alghrabli, showing her missing husband’s photo on keyring and crying
7. Sabah Abdul-Salam crying
8. Various of Alghrabli holding bones found in rubble and saying UPSOUND, (Arabic): "We don’t know if these bones belong to my father"
9. Destruction in area where Mohamed Alghrabli was seen for the last tim
STORYLINE:
Reem Ajour says she last saw her husband and then 4-year-old daughter in March, when Israeli soldiers raided a family home in northern Gaza.
She is haunted by those chaotic last moments, when the soldiers ordered her to go – to leave behind Talal and Masaa, both wounded.
Eight months later, the 23-year-old mother still has no answers about their fate.
The military says it does not have them. Troops leveled the house where they were staying soon after the raid.
"It is very difficult. I am tormented every second,” she said.
Ajour is one of dozens of Palestinians that an Israeli legal group, Hamoked, is helping in their search for family members who went missing after being separated by Israeli soldiers during raids and arrests in the Gaza Strip.
Their cases — a fraction of the thousands who have gone missing during the 14-month-long war — highlight a lack of accountability in how the Israeli military deals with Palestinians during ground operations in Gaza, Hamoked says.
Throughout the war, the military has conducted what amounts to a mass sifting of the Palestinian population as it raids homes and shelters and sends people through checkpoints.
Troops round up and detain men, from dozens to several hundreds at a time, searching for any they suspect of Hamas ties, while forcing their families away, toward other parts of Gaza. The result is families split apart, often amid the chaos of fighting.
But the military has not made clear how it keeps track of everyone it separates, arrests or detains.
Even if troops transfer Palestinians to military detention inside Israel, they can hold them incommunicado for more than a month – their whereabouts unknown to families or lawyers, according to rights groups.
When people vanish, it’s nearly impossible to know what happened, Hamoked says.
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