Three Years On, Gaza’s Enforced Disappearances and Missing Persons Crisis Persists as Families Demand Truth
Three years since the outbreak of hostilities in the Gaza Strip, a compounding crisis of missing persons, enforced disappearances, and unaccounted-for individuals continues to leave thousands of families without answers regarding the fate of their loved ones, the Palestinian Center for Missing and Forcibly Disappeared said in a statement. The Center emphasized that after three
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Gaza: Israel’s Rubble Removal Strategy Destroys Mass Graves and Erases Forensic Evidence, Warns PCMFD
The Palestinian Centre for Missing and Forcibly Disappeared has raised the alarm over Israel’s systematic clearing and hauling of rubble across the Gaza Strip, warning that the operation is crushing human remains and permanently erasing forensic evidence required to identify thousands of missing civilians. Citing field documentation and reports by the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor,
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On International Day of the Disappeared: PCMFD Study Uncovers Patterns of Enforced Disappearance in Gaza
On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared (PCMFD) releases a brief analytical study based on a sample of 317 cases of individuals suspected of being subjected to enforced disappearance during the war on the Gaza Strip. This report seeks to deconstruct operational patterns
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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
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