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Israel’s foreign minister confirmed the 23-year-old’s death on Monday, adding that she had “experienced unimaginable horrors.”
In Berlin
The last images of them showed fear on the day of the Hamas terrorist attack, October 7th. The 22-year-old German-Israeli woman’s body was filmed lying incoherent and half-naked in the back of a pickup truck amid a cheering and angry Palestinian crowd chanting “Allah akbar.” as the Jeep drove away in a cloud of dust. A rumor started circulating, spread by a family looking for hope who immediately recognized the tattoos on her legs: Immediately after the Hamas attack, Shani Louk was taken to a hospital in the Gaza Strip with serious head injuries. Without there ever being any proof of life to testify to this. The only concrete signal: the young woman’s bank had contacted her mother. There were two attempts in the Gaza Strip to withdraw money using his bank card. His family, some of whom live near Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg, had increased their cries for help for three weeks, languishing in grief and anger at the same time. Shani Louk never lived in Germany, but regularly visited her grandparents near Ravensburg.
This Monday morning, the Israeli and German foreign ministries confirmed that the young woman’s body had been found and identified. The President of the Hebrew State Yitzhak Herzog expressed his condolences to his family, which were collected by the German daily Bild: “This news makes me deeply sad (…)* It is a great tragedy and I send my most sincere condolences to his family. “
“She didn’t suffer.”
After the IDF offensive in Gaza, Shani Louk’s family received confirmation of his death. Shani’s mother Ricarda told German news agency DPA that a DNA swab from a skull bone found near the security fence provided evidence. The family provided DNA samples to authorities so they could make comparisons. Ricarda Louk also clarified that her daughter’s remains have not yet been completely found. The mother believes her daughter died on the same day and may have been shot in the head in the terrorist attack: “The news is terrible, but it’s better to have certainty now and know: ‘At least she didn’t suffer’ “she says.” said. Adi, one of Shani’s sisters, the second of four children, also commented on the young woman’s death on Instagram: “It is with great sadness that we announce the death of my sister.”
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His mother, a German convert to Judaism who had emigrated to Israel for 30 years and was informed by the Israeli army on Sunday evening, announced this this morning on German television RTL/NTV. With dreadlocks and blonde curls, Tel Aviv resident, tattoo artist and Instagram influencer Shani Louk was attending the Supernova electronic music festival in Re’im, at the gateway to the Negev Desert, when Hamas forces surprised the unarmed civilians attacked October 7th. At least 260 participants in this outdoor rave party were killed that day.
In a panic, the young woman, accompanied by a Mexican friend, tried to escape in a car before she was caught in Islamist fire in this desperate attempt. The young woman was able to talk to her mother on the phone and tell her that she was trying to hide. His last words early in the morning of October 7th.
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