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23-year-old Shani Louk was abducted and killed during the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th. Now her body is said to have been found.
Gaza – According to its own statements, the Israeli army has… Gaza Strip The body of the German-Israeli Shani Louk was found. Army spokesman Daniel Hagari announced this on Friday. Louk was present during the terrorist attack on October 7th Hamas abducted to the coastal strip and later declared dead. At the time of the unprecedented attack, she had been at the Supernova festival in southern Israel along with hundreds of other young people.
In addition to Louk, according to the army spokesman, two other bodies of festival visitors were found. All three were murdered at the festival, Hagari said. Their bodies were recovered that night during a special operation by the army and the domestic intelligence service Shin Bet in the Gaza Strip. It was an operation based on intelligence information. After the dead were identified, the families were informed. “We will continue to fight to bring the hostages home,” Hagari said.
Shani Louk’s death had been known for months
The Israeli army had already reported Louk’s death at the end of October, but there was uncertainty about the fate of the other two hostages. Her mother, Ricarda Louk, said at the time that a sliver of a skull bone had been found and used to take a DNA sample. If you injured this inner skull bone, you would no longer be able to live, the mother said at the time. The parents had provided the authorities with the necessary DNA comparison material a long time ago.
Images and videos that circulated online after the terrorist attack showed the young woman’s body on the attackers’ pickup truck. Her family said they recognized the young woman in the photos and shortly afterwards turned to the public to ask for help. Initially, Shani Louk’s family, some of whom live in Baden-Württemberg, assumed that the young woman was seriously injured in the head in the attack, but was alive and in the Gaza Strip.
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