Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared: Three years have passed since the start of the missing persons crisis in the Gaza Strip, and families still do not know the fate of their sons.

Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared:

▪ Three years have passed since the start of the missing persons crisis in the Gaza Strip, and families still do not know the fate of their sons.

▪ The number of missing persons has reached more than 7,000, including about 4,000 under the rubble and more than 2,500 forcibly disappeared.

▪ Hundreds went missing near the border on October 7, 2023, some of them minors who had gone to watch the events.

▪ The occupation authorities used enforced disappearance as a systematic policy and as a tool of collective punishment and pressure on Palestinians.

▪ Cases of enforced disappearance continued even after the announcement of the ceasefire on October 9, 2025.

▪ The occupation forces refuse to reveal the names of detainees, and returned hundreds of bodies unidentified without information about the circumstances of their deaths.

▪ Ongoing Israeli restrictions on the entry of heavy equipment obstruct the recovery of bodies and their burial with dignity.

▪ International laws and the Geneva Conventions guarantee families' right to know the fate of their missing sons.

▪ The psychological and physical effects on families are worsening sharply with the continued withholding of information and living in anxiety and waiting.

▪ The center calls on the occupation to immediately disclose the fate of the missing and the names of detainees and facilitate visits to them internationally.

▪ The international community is called upon to establish an independent investigative mechanism to collect evidence and determine the fate of the missing and forcibly disappeared.