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In the Kurdish-held city of Qamishli in northeast Syria, Hamed Hemo believes that an investigation could uncover the fate of his missing son.

Hemo has turned his living room into a shrine for his son, Ferhad, a journalist who went missing after IS militants kidnapped him and a colleague, Masoud Aqil, in 2014.

“To this day our lives have completely changed,” Hemo said, taking a drag from his cigarette.

Thousands of captured IS fighters are held in prisons run by Kurdish-led forces who Hemo believes could provide information about the missing.

Ohad Hemo, a reporter for Israel’s Channel 12, said the Israeli media were spurned “because we represent normalization.”