Gaza Families Search for 8,000 Missing as 1,300 Detainees Remain Held Without Charge
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Updated · BBC.com · Aug 19
Gaza Families Search for 8,000 Missing as 1,300 Detainees Remain Held Without Charge
3 articles · Updated · BBC.com · Aug 19
Summary
More than 8,000 people are believed missing in Gaza, with families still searching for relatives who may be buried in rubble or held in Israeli detention.
At least 5,000 tracing requests have reached the Red Cross, but body recovery is slowed by vast destruction, too few bulldozers and limited DNA testing under Israeli import restrictions.
Around 1,300 Gaza detainees were being held in Israeli jails without charge or trial this month, rights group HaMoked said, while families often receive no notice of arrests or whereabouts.
More than 73,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the war began, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, and that toll excludes many bodies still unrecovered from collapsed buildings.