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Three years into the war in Gaza, thousands of Palestinian families remain without answers about relatives who vanished during Israeli ground offensives, displacement, or while searching for aid or checking on homes near the so-called Yellow Line. Journalists and survivors describe an ongoing psychological toll, with families suspended between hope and grief and little institutional mechanism to trace the missing. Accompanying commentary from Gaza residents describes survivors as unable to begin recovering from trauma, citing the scale of death and destruction and the absence of conditions for healing.