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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Laurie Kellman

'Not knowing' plunges the families of Israel's missing into a limbo of pain and numbness

Rachel Goldberg

The families of Israel's dead are holding funerals and mourning in the wake of Hamas' deadly rampage. The loved ones of people thought to have been taken hostage are demanding the captives' release.

But nearly two weeks after the worst civilian massacre in Israel's history, the families of the missing are wandering through a landscape of pain and numbness with no clear horizon and few, if any answers. The not-knowing, they say, plunges them into cycles of sorrow and hope.

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