After more than eight months of mourning her as a martyr in the prisons of the usurping entity, the family of young Palestinian woman Bisan Fadl Fayad was struck by a new revelation that overturned their grief and mourning.

It turned out that Bisan, who had been arrested during the usurping entity’s assault on Gaza, is still alive in its prisons. She is suffering from partial paralysis caused by a severe spinal injury, while the body her family had received and buried last January belonged to another woman.

The case sheds light on a compounded crime, combining enforced disappearance with manipulation of corpses, and reflects the deep anguish forced upon Palestinian families who are made to live between mourning and uncertainty, denied the most basic right of knowing their loved ones’ fate.

It is also part of a growing pattern of violations affecting hundreds of Palestinians hidden away in the prisons of the usurping entity, with no information about their health conditions or whereabouts.

Bisan’s ordeal exposes the harshest face of this policy, where an individual’s wound becomes a mirror of collective suffering, and where international silence serves as a cover that allows the occupation to persist in its crimes.

It is a resounding call for urgent humanitarian and legal action to put an end to these ongoing violations and to restore the rights of the missing and the disappeared, along with the dignity of their families.