Gaza mother’s grim ordeal: A search for missing son among mutilated bodies

Gaza mother’s grim ordeal: A search for missing son among mutilated bodies

Gaza families seek closure as they search for loved ones among bodies returned by Israel under ‘ceasefire’ deal.

“My son was in prime of his youth, like a flower”: Gaza mother searches morgues, prisoner lists for missing son

Photo: Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera For 56-year-old Palestinian mother, Hanaa al-Mabhuh, each step between the rows of photographic body profiles and the morgue at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza is a torment that refuses to ease. With eyes swollen from crying and shoulders heavy with exhaustion, she searches for any sign of her missing son, her youngest child,  whose fate has been unknown for months. Since Israel began returning Palestinian bodies…