What Happens When You Can’t Get a Death Certificate in Gaza
Key summary
ISEP surveyed 600 people across 53 Gaza locations, iSEP surveyed 600 people across 53 locations in Gaza to estimate missing persons.
Gaza missing persons more than 51,000 people may have gone missing since October 2023, iSEP's best estimate of people who may have gone missing since October 2023.
Roughly 14,000 to 15,000 people remain unaccounted for, iSEP's estimate of people still unaccounted for since October 2023.
Households with missing persons 42.9 percent reported struggling to obtain a death certificate, percentage of households with a missing person reporting difficulty obtaining a death certificate, per ISEP survey.
About 42.9 percent said the missing person was the household's main breadwinner, survey finding about economic role of missing persons in households.
