A human rights study revealed that 317 cases of suspected enforced disappearance were documented during the genocide in the Gaza Strip, amid estimates that the total number of cases may range between 2500 and 3000 people. The Palestinian Center for the forcibly missing and forcibly released the study in conjunction with the International Day of Enforced Disappearance Victims, based on communications submitted by missing families and cases documented by the Center in the field. The sample does not represent the full size of the phenomenon, but it reveals frequent patterns of disappearance associated with military operations, incursions, displacement and barriers, as well as the movement of civilians in search of food and aid or their return to their homes to bring basic needs. The study data show that males constitute 95.27% of documented cases, with 302 cases, compared to 15 female cases, or 4.73%. The sample included 41 children under the age of 18, with 12.93%, and 17 people aged 60 years and over 5.36%, while the number of adults between 18 and 59 years was 259, with a percentage of 259 cases. 81.70%. Cases are not limited to a single social or age group. It included children, women, the elderly and men, under conditions that prompted civilians to move within high-risk areas to secure food, water and medicine, or to recover basic property from their homes.
