After an Israeli air strike killed Alaa al-Sheikh last year, her family buried her in a makeshift graveyard near the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza.
Access to the main cemetery had become impossible due to intensified ground and aerial attacks in the area.
Israeli troops eventually stormed the vicinity of the Indonesian hospital too, where the temporary cemetery was established.
When the family revisited the site a few weeks later, after the Israeli withdrawal, the body had disappeared.
“We wanted to move her body to the Falouja Cemetery but we were shocked to find neither the grave nor her body,” Yahya al-Sheikh, Alaa’s brother, told Middle East Eye…..more
