Mother kidnapped by Hamas: Shani Louk is dead
October 30, 2023, 8:50 am Listen to the article
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German Shani Louk has been missing for weeks. Hamas terrorists kidnapped the 22-year-old after attacking a music festival. Now there is a sad certainty, as her mother says: Shani Louk is no longer alive.
Kidnapped German Shani Louk is dead according to her mother, Ricarda Louk told RTL/ntv. She was informed by the Israeli military that her daughter was dead: “Unfortunately, we received the news yesterday that my daughter is no longer alive.” There is no official confirmation yet. The 22-year-old was kidnapped by terrorists after Hamas attacked a music festival.
Ricarda Louk recognized her daughter in a video in which the 22-year-old can be seen half-naked in a van among several Hamas men in the Gaza Strip, with her face on the ground and her legs twisted. She was then reportedly treated in a hospital in the Gaza Strip.
Shani Louk has German and Israeli citizenship and has visited her grandparents in Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg several times. Her mother, a Catholic who later converted to Judaism, emigrated to Israel. The Jewish father is Israeli.
A few days ago, the families of German Hamas hostages celebrated the fate of their loved ones with a protest in front of the German embassy in Tel Aviv. 14 family members stood in front of the representation with “cages” on their heads and photos of the hostages on the back of their heads. They wore black coats numbered 1 to 14. “Don’t let me be just a number,” was written on the protesters’ backs.
Terrorists in the name of Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, carried out a massacre of civilians in Israel on October 7th. More than 1,400 people died during and in the following days. More than 230 other people were kidnapped in the Gaza Strip, including several Germans. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs continues to speak of a total of eight cases of missing German citizens, although one case may also include several family members. The government does not give the exact number.