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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Reem Ajour says she past saw her hubby and past 4-year-old girl successful March, erstwhile Israeli soldiers raided a family location successful bluish Gaza. She is haunted by those chaotic past moments, erstwhile nan soldiers ordered her to spell – to time off down Talal and Masaa, some wounded.
Eight months later, nan 23-year-old mother still has nary answers astir their fate. The subject says it does not person them. Troops leveled nan location wherever they were staying soon aft nan raid.
“I americium surviving and dormant astatine nan aforesaid time,” she said, breaking down successful sobs.
Ajour is 1 of dozens of Palestinians that an Israeli ineligible group, Hamoked, is helping successful their hunt for family members who went missing aft being separated by Israeli soldiers during raids and arrests successful nan Gaza Strip.
Their cases — a fraction of nan estimated thousands who person gone missing during nan 14-month-long warfare — item a deficiency of accountability successful really nan Israeli subject deals pinch Palestinians during crushed operations successful Gaza, Hamoked says.
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Throughout nan war, nan subject has conducted what amounts to a wide sifting of nan Palestinian organization arsenic it raids homes and shelters and sends group done checkpoints. Troops information up and detain men, from dozens to respective hundreds astatine a time, searching for immoderate they fishy of Hamas ties, while forcing their families away, toward different parts of Gaza. The consequence is families divided apart, often amid nan chaos of fighting.
But nan subject has not made clear really it keeps way of everyone it separates, arrests aliases detains. Even if troops transportation Palestinians to subject detention wrong Israel, they tin clasp them incommunicado for much than 2 months — their whereabouts chartless to families aliases lawyers, according to authorities groups.
When group vanish, it’s astir intolerable to cognize what happened, Hamoked says.
“We’ve ne'er had a business of wide forced disappearance from Gaza, pinch nary accusation provided for weeks and weeks to families,” said Jessica Montell, nan head of Hamoked. Israel’s High Court of Justice has refused to intervene to get answers, contempt Hamoked’s petitions, she said.
Asked by The Associated Press astir nan cases of Ajour and 2 different families it interviewed, nan Israeli subject declined comment.
4-year-old Masaa Ajour was shot, past separated from her mother
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The Ajours were sheltering astatine a location successful Gaza City that belonged to Talal’s family aft being displaced from their ain location earlier successful nan war. Israeli troops raided nan location connected March 24, opening occurrence arsenic they burst in, Ajour said.
Ajour, who was 3 months pregnant, was changeable successful nan stomach. Talal was wounded successful his leg, bleeding heavily. Masaa laic passed out, changeable successful nan enarthrosis – though Ajour said she saw her still breathing.
As 1 worker bandaged nan small girl’s wound, different pointed his weapon successful Ajour’s look and told her to caput retired of Gaza City.
She said she pleaded that she couldn’t time off Masaa and Talal, but nan worker screamed: “Go south!”
With nary choice, Ajour collected her younger boy and went down to nan street. “It was each successful a blink of an eye. It was each truthful fast,” she said. Still bleeding, she walked for 2 and a half hours, clutching her son.
When they reached a infirmary successful cardinal Gaza, doctors treated her tummy coiled and recovered her fetus’ pulse. Weeks later, doctors recovered nan beat had gone. She miscarried.
Ajour said that respective weeks later, a Palestinian released from a situation successful confederate Israel told her family he had heard her husband’s sanction called retired complete a loudspeaker among a database of detainees.
The rumor has kept her dream alive, but nan subject told Hamoked it had nary grounds of Masaa aliases Talal being detained.
Another anticipation is that they died connected nan scene, but nary 1 has been capable to hunt nan rubble of nan family’s building to find if immoderate bodies are there.
The storming of their building came arsenic Israeli forces were battling Hamas fighters successful surrounding streets while raiding adjacent Shifa Hospital, wherever it claimed nan militants were based. Troops cleared families retired of adjacent homes and often past destroyed aliases group nan buildings ablaze, according to witnesses astatine nan time.
The subject itself whitethorn not cognize what happened to Ajour’s hubby and daughter, said Montell of Hamoked.
“That illustrates a broader problem,” she said.
Ajour and her boy now shelter successful a shelter campy extracurricular nan cardinal Gaza municipality of Zuweida.
Masaa, she said, “was my first joy” — pinch blond hairsbreadth and olive-colored eyes, a look “white for illustration nan moon.”
Masaa’s 5th day was successful July, Ajour said, sobbing. “She turned 5 while she is not pinch me.”
Does nan subject archive what troops do successful Gaza?
Ariel Schalit via Associated Press
Under a wartime revision to Israeli law, Palestinians from Gaza taken to subject detention successful Israel tin beryllium held for complete 2 months without entree to nan extracurricular world.
Israel says nan rule is basal to grip nan unprecedented number of detainees arsenic it seeks to destruct Hamas pursuing nan Oct. 7, 2023, onslaught connected Israel that killed 1,200 and took astir 250 group hostage wrong Gaza. The subject has transferred immoderate 1,770 of its Gaza detainees to civilian prisons, according to authorities groups, but it has not revealed nan number still successful its detention.
Milena Ansari, a interrogator astatine Human Rights Watch, said Israel is obligated nether world rule to archive what happens during each location ambush and detention. But nan subject is not transparent astir nan accusation it collects connected detainees aliases connected really galore it is holding, she said.
Hamoked has asked nan subject for nan whereabouts of 900 missing Palestinians. The subject confirmed astir 500 of them were detained successful Israel. It said it had nary grounds of detaining nan different 400.
The group petitioned Israel’s High Court of Justice seeking answers successful 52 cases, including that of Masaa and 2 different children, wherever witnesses testified that nan missing were handled by troops earlier their disappearances.
“The judges conscionable disregard nan cases, without moreover inquiring what measures mightiness beryllium basal to forestall specified cases successful nan future,” said Montell.
A tribunal spokesperson said it often asks nan subject to supply further accusation but isn’t authorized to analyse if nan subject says it is not detaining them.
In nan cases of 3 missing big Palestinians presented by Hamoked, nan subject first claimed it was not holding them, past recovered records of them being detained aft being pressed by Hamoked to double-check.
In different case, subject constabulary discovered that 2 Palestinians they had initially denied holding ― a begetter and his big boy ― had died successful Israeli custody. The U.N. Human Rights Office says astatine slightest 53 Palestinians are known to person died successful Israeli detention during nan war.
Ailing pinch cancer, Mahmoud Alghrabli vanished aft raid
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The past clip nan Alghrabli family saw their 76-year-old patriarch, Mahmoud Alghrabli, was erstwhile Israeli troops stormed their territory successful Khan Younis connected Feb. 4. The soldiers ordered residents retired of nan area. The Alghrablis had to transportation Mahmoud, suffering from cancer, retired of their building connected a chair, his boy Ahmed Algharbli told nan AP.
After detaining immoderate men, nan soldiers ordered nan remainder to leave. Mahmoud Alghrabli made it to a soil mound adjacent nan house. Ahmed Algharbli said his relative went to thief nan father, but soldiers shouted astatine him to leave.
“He near our begetter by force, aliases he would person been shot,” he said.
The family returned a period later. There was nary trace of Mahmoud. Ahmed Algharbli said he “walked metre by meter” searching for traces, uncovering bones but not knowing whose they were. He keeps them wrapped successful a portion of cloth astatine home.
Hamoked was told by nan subject location was nary denotation of him successful Israeli detention.
“By God, I don’t slumber astatine night,” said Mahmoud’s wife, Sabah Abdul-Salam. Whether he was arrested aliases killed, she said, “let america know, we will rest.”
Mahmoud Almoqayed vanished while searching for his family
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The only traces near of different missing man, 77-year-old Mahmoud Almoqayed, are his torn garment and pants pinch his ID successful nan pocket. They were recovered successful nan ungraded adjacent nan schoolhouse wherever he and his family were sheltering erstwhile it was raided by Israeli troops connected May 23 successful nan bluish municipality of Beit Lahiya.
The soldiers released Almoqayed and sent him and different men to different shelter, said his son, Rani Almoqayed, a expert moving successful Saudi Arabia who pieced together nan relationship from witnesses and family members.
Once astatine nan 2nd shelter, nan aged Almoqayed instantly turned back, wished to find his woman and grandchildren near down astatine nan school, witnesses told his son. It was dark, good aft 1 a.m., and troops were each astir nan area. Almoqayed was ne'er seen by his family again.
Weeks later, his family recovered his abandoned clothes. They besides recovered skulls and assemblage parts nearby, Rani Almoqayed said.
The subject constabulary told Hamoked it had nary denotation Almoqayed was detained.
Rani Almoqayed believes it’s imaginable his begetter was killed and Israeli troops took nan body. Since December 2023, nan subject has returned astatine slightest 318 bodies and a sack of assemblage parts to Gaza aft seizing them to hunt for hostages, a elder U.N. charismatic successful Gaza told nan AP, speaking anonymously to talk confidential matters.
The bodies, pinch nary recognition and often decomposed, are buried successful anonymous wide graves.
The family had Mahmoud Almoqayed declared officially dead, his boy said.
“But nan uncertainty will not extremity and one’s bosom won’t easiness unless they spot nan body.”
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El Deeb reported from Beirut, and Frankel from Jerusalem.
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