Israel’s Holding of Gazan Bodies as Bargaining Chips is an Extension of Enforced Disappearance
The Palestinian Center for Missing and Forcibly Disappeared affirms that the recent revelations published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz—exposing the holding of nearly 1,700 bodies of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip by Israeli authorities for use as future bargaining chips—constitute damning evidence and a systematic extension of the crime of enforced disappearance, as well as
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Palestine Center for Missing and Forcibly Disappeared Documents the Disappearance of Civilian Ibrahim Mustafa Al-Astal in Khan Younis
As part of its ongoing efforts to document cases of loss and forcibly disappearance in the Gaza Strip, the Palestine Center for Missing and Forcibly Disappeared (PCMFD) has formally documented the case of 59-year-old Palestinian civilian Ibrahim Mustafa Al-Astal. The documented facts indicate a suspected case of enforced disappearance, occurring against the backdrop of military
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90 Days of Fate Unknown: The Mother Who Died Calling Her Missing Son’s Name
On the morning of 7 October 2023, as initial news of military developments along the eastern border began to break, 22-year-old Khaled Abu Hamada left his family home in the al-Bureij refugee camp to see what was taking place in the eastern area. He took nothing with him except his mobile phone. From that morning
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The Release of “Hamadah Al-Banna” Alive Proves the Israeli Policy of Enforced Disappearance Against Gaza
The Israeli occupation authorities released yesterday (July 7, 2026) nine prisoners from the Gaza Strip, including “Hamada Al-Banna,” whose family believed that the Israeli army had killed him three months ago while he was in the Israli prisons. This incident proves the systematic crime of enforced disappearance committed by Israel against civilians in the Gaza
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PCMFD Demands Immediate Disclosure of the Fate of Child Missing Near Gaza’s “Yellow Line”
Gaza – The Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared (PCMFD) has expressed its profound concern over the disappearance of 9-year-old child “Jalal Ahmed Al-Bursh” along the “Yellow Line” in the northern Gaza Strip, calling upon all relevant humanitarian bodies to exert every possible effort to investigate the circumstances of his disappearance and determine
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Press Statement: Regarding the Israeli Supreme Court’s Decision to Lift the Ban on Visiting Palestinian Prisoners
The Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared is closely following the Israeli Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the ban on visits by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) teams to Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons and detention centers. The Center believes that this decision, despite being issued after long
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Immediate disclosure of the fate of detained academic “Mahmoud Al-Najjar” demanded
Gaza – The Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared (PCMFD) stated that the Israeli army’s detention of Palestinian academic Mahmoud Al-Najjar while he was attempting to travel, and his subsequent transfer to an unknown location without notifying his family or any official bodies, represents a new chapter in the systematic chain of arbitrary
Read MorePCMED Addresses MEPs and Rights Groups on Gaza’s Missing Children for International Missing Children’s Day
The Palestinian Center for the Missing and Enforced Disappeared executed a large-scale correspondence campaign targeting Members of the European Parliament and international human rights organizations on the occasion of International Missing Children’s Day, which falls on the twenty-fifth of May each year, to brief them on the issue of missing children in the Gaza Strip
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“I want to see Baba”: The desperate search for missing Gaza journalist Ahmed al-Agha
On the morning of 4 March 2024, the Hamad Towers in Khan Younis ceased to be a residential complex and became a trap. As Israeli forces launched a military operation in the northwest of the city, Ahmed al-Agha, a Palestinian journalist, was inside his apartment. Then, the line went dead. Since that moment, Agha’s family
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World Press Freedom Day: 939 Days of Uncertainty for Disappeared Journalists Nidal Al-Waheidi and Haitham Abdel-Wahed”
The Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared (PCMFD) expresses its profound concern over the continued ambiguity surrounding the fate of journalists Nidal Al-Waheidi and Haitham Abdel-Wahed. All contact with the two journalists was lost on October 7, 2023, while they were performing their professional duties near the Beit Hanoun/Erez crossing in the northern
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