Late one night in March, Ahmed Abu Jalala rose quietly, trying hard not to wake his family, sleeping around him on the floor of a UN-run school in northern Gaza.
The 54-year-old father knew his six children needed food, but after months of war there was none. Little aid reached Jabaliya, where they had been staying since fleeing their home in the early weeks of the conflict, and his children had been reduced to eating wild plants. So Abu Jalala went out into the darkness to search for flour being brought by a humanitarian convoy.
“We would never have let him go if we’d known … We’ve not seen or heard of him since,” said Etemad Abu Jalala, the missing man’s uncle.
After six months of war, tens of thousands have disappeared in Gaza, their whereabouts unknown to their
