Balata refugee camp, occupied West Bank – Jameela Sanaqra’s three sons are gone. She knows for certain that Israel killed two of them.

Her third son, her youngest, Mahmoud, was shot in his bedroom by Israeli commandos on February 27, a week before his 26th birthday.

He was taken by the soldiers and has not been returned to his family.

She does not know if he is dead or alive, adding to her grief and mental torment.

“Palestinian mothers carry their sons twice; once in the womb, and then on the day of their burial procession,” 67-year-old Jameela told Al Jazeera in her home in the Balata refugee camp .

Mahmoud is likely one of the more than 2,220 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and Gaza whose bodies are held by Israel , often in refrigerators or buried in numbered cem

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