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
Read More
On Palestinian Children’s Day: More than 2,900 Missing Children in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli War of Genocide
GAZA – The Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared (PCMFD) marks Palestinian Children’s Day, observed annually on April 5th, as a somber reminder of the thousands of children buried under the rubble of buildings decimated by Israeli airstrikes or lost in the chaos of war. The Center warns that this anniversary arrives amidst
Read More
Fact Sheet: Determinants and Obstacles to Documenting the Number of Missing and Enforced Disappeared Persons in Gaza
Introduction This paper outlines the field, logistical, and legal factors preventing the issuance of accurate and comprehensive statistics regarding the numbers of missing and forcibly disappeared persons in the Gaza Strip. It addresses their demographic distribution (children/women) and the locations of their disappearance. These factors constitute structural barriers facing documentation teams and legal units. 1-Geographical
Read More
On International Women’s Day: 3,200 women remain missing in Gaza amid ongoing genocide
Gaza – The Palestinian Center for Missing and Forcibly Disappeared Persons stated that International Women’s Day, observed on March 8, serves as a grim reminder of the escalating tragedy of thousands of missing women in the Gaza Strip. This crisis continues to worsen 28 months into the genocidal war waged by the Israeli military, compounded
Read More
Urgent call for international technical teams and specialized equipment to recover and identify the bodies of the dead in Gaza
Gaza – The Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared has urged the international community to take immediate action to deploy technical teams and specialized equipment to help recover the bodies of thousands of victims buried under the rubble of buildings bombed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, and to assist in identifying the
Read More
The escalation of Israel’s assault on Gaza City is deepening the tragedy of the missing and increasing their numbers.
The Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared expressed grave concern over the growing risks of more civilians going missing amid Israel’s ongoing military offensive, relentless bombardment, and mass evacuation orders. In a statement, the Center said Israeli forces have been carrying out intense operations across Gaza’s southern, eastern, and northern neighborhoods for nearly
Read More
The Case of Detainee Bisan Fayyad: A Stark Example of the Tragedies of Enforced Disappearance in Occupation Prisons
The Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared confirmed that the case of detainee Bisan Fadl Muhammad Fayyad is a stark example of the tragedies resulting from the phenomenon of the missing and the policy of enforced disappearance pursued by Israeli occupation forces during their wide and ongoing military assault on the Gaza Strip
Read More
UNICEF and ICRC must launch immediate operation to retrieve children’s bodies from Gaza rubble
Gaza – The Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared (PCMFD) expresses deep concern over the continued disappearance of thousands of Palestinian children’s bodies beneath the rubble in Gaza. This tragedy, driven by Israel’s genocidal war, is worsened by the absence of effective international mechanisms for their search, recovery, and identification. PCMFD monitors the
Read More
The retrieval of the bodies of thousands of victims trapped under the rubble in Gaza requires urgent international intervention.
Gaza – The Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared expressed deep concern over the ongoing Israeli obstruction of the entry of necessary equipment to retrieve the bodies of thousands of victims trapped under the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israel in the Gaza Strip. The center called on international institutions to assume their
Read More
Al-Majdalawi: 100 Cases of Disappearance Documented in Two Weeks
Ghazi Al-Majdalawi, the lead researcher at the Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared, announced the documentation of 100 cases of disappearance in the Gaza Strip within just two weeks of the center’s efforts to monitor and record cases of missing and forcibly disappeared persons resulting from the ongoing Israeli aggression on the region.
Read More