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.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listHe 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 cemeteries, according to the Palestinian National Campaign for the Recovery of Martyrs’ Bodies.The Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC) says Israel uses the practice as a weapon of war and as a means to deny Palestinians the chance to mourn lost loved ones.Like so many other Palestinian mothers, Jameela has been deprived of the opportunity to carry the last of her sons to his final resting place.Refugee camp under attackBalata, east of Nablus, is the most populated refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, established in 1950.It is less than a quarter of a square kilometre, about the size of 35 football fields, with at least 33,000 people crammed into its narrow streets.Walls and window …
