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Mideast Wars Gaza's Missing
Sitting next to her son Wael, left, Reem Ajour shows a picture of her daughter, Masaa, and her husband, Talal, on her cellphone in a camp outside Zuweida, Gaza Strip, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

These Palestinians disappeared after encounters with Israeli troops in Gaza

Dozens of Palestinians are receiving help from an Israeli legal group in their search for family members who went missing after being separated by Israeli soldiers during raids and arrests in the Gaza Strip

By WAFAA SHURAFA, SARAH EL DEEB and JULIA FRANKEL
Published - Dec 11, 2024, 12:00 PM ET
Last Updated - Dec 16, 2024, 04:59 PM EST

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — 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.

“I am living and dead at the same time,” she said, breaking down in sobs.

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.

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