Mohammad’s family spent four days searching for him after he became separated from his uncles at a food distribution point in northern Gaza. They clung to the chance that he had been arrested by the Israel Defense Forces, as the boy was not among the corpses recovered after troops opened fire.
But eventually they found his body mutilated beyond recognition, identifiable only by his electrician father’s work shoes. Mohammad was 16, and his family had not seen a bag of flour for more than a month. His uncle Mo, who was born in Jabaliya, northern Gaza, received news of his nephew’s disappearance in the UK, where he has worked as an NHS consultant for the past 20 years.
