For around a year, Hamada al-Banna was missing after he set out to obtain a sack of wheat flour from humanitarian aid trucks near Zikim in northern Gaza.
His family did not know his whereabouts or whether he was still alive or had been killed alongside his brother, who was with him that day.
As his family began to lose hope, his fiancee, Reem Jadallah, held on to the last remaining possibility. She sold her gold to hire a lawyer to find out whether he was being held in Israeli prisons.
But the news she finally received was the one she had spent months fearing: that Banna had been killed under torture.
Months later, Banna called his family and told them he was alive.
The 23-year-old was released from Israeli detention on Sunday after being forcibly disappeared for around a year in Israeli custody.
