‘What happened?’: No peace for Shamikh Badra, who fears for family missing in Gaza since 2023

Palestinian-Australian man has not had word as to whereabouts of his brother or his brother’s wife and children for more than a year – and he is not alone in his uncertainty and grief

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There is a peace now, fragile and uncertain, but there are no answers.

Shamikh Badra carries on his phone a photo of his brother, Ehab, sitting, smiling with his children. For now, it’s all he has – and it might be all he ever has of the sibling he revered.

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