Shani Louk is dead. Twenty-two days after Hamas militiamen forcibly entered the Negev Desert, where the young German-Israeli woman was enjoying a peace concert with her boyfriend, her mother received the harsh news of her death.

Ricarda Louk informed the world that she was told that her daughter had died. “Unfortunately, yesterday (Sunday) we received the news that my daughter is no longer alive,” Infobae published on Monday, October 30, 2023.

Despite the pain, the mother said, according to La Razón: “At least she didn’t suffer.”

What happened to Shani is one of the events that marked the beginning of this war between Hamas and Israel. On October 7, the world was amazed to see violent images of confusion and fear. Of young people being persecuted and kidnapped, but undoubtedly the most powerful was the video of the young woman that same day.

As terrorists overran the festival, Louk called his mother to tell her he was trying to get to his car to leave.

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“They sent us a video in which I could clearly see our daughter unconscious in the car with the Palestinians as they drove through the Gaza Strip,” said Ricarda Louk. They recognized her because of her tattoos and dreadlock hair.

They displayed his body as a war trophy and then made purchases with his credit card

That day they left her for dead. The video traveled around the world. Shani was seen lying face down in the back of a truck. Armed men placed their feet on her. They screamed, El Universo described on October 9.

In El Periódico they published: (…) it showed the humiliation and violence to which the kidnapped civilians were exposed. They showed Shani, a German ‘influencer’, as a trophy of barbarism. She appears to be lying half-naked, surrounded by several armed men, one of whom spits on her.”

Hours later, in a surprising twist to this story, her mother stated that Shani was alive and had serious head injuries.

He asked for help from the German government. “This is actually my desperate appeal to the entire country, to Germany, to help me bring my Shani back home healthy,” he said on October 10.

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Israel: We are devastated

After three weeks, Israel confirmed the girl’s unfortunate death on Monday, October 30, 2023.

Infobae and the EFE agency reported that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated: “We are devastated to share that the body of German-Israeli Shani Louk has been found and identified.”

“She was kidnapped at the music festival, tortured and paraded in Gaza by Hamas terrorists, experienced unfathomable horrors”, emphasized the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with Shani’s friends and family during this unimaginable nightmare,” he continued. May his memory be a blessing.”

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The parent believes Shani “has actually been dead since October 7th, when Hamas launched a surprise attack on several towns near the Strip. “It does not rule out that he died from a shot to the head,” La Razón noted.

According to that outlet, the woman explained that her daughter’s body has not yet been found, “although she stated that a splinter of bone had been found from the skull and that a DNA sample had been taken from it, the police reported. . German news agency DPA.”

Shani had gone to the peace concert with her partner, the Mexican Orión Hernández, about whom there is no news.

Ricarda Louk described the confirmation of her daughter’s death as “terrible”, although “she considers it positive to be sure of what happened”.

(JO)