There were many horrible stories of brutality from the attack on Israel on October 7. One of the most disturbing stories was the horrible way that Hamas treated a woman, later identified as Shani Louk, a German Israeli who was at the music festival that Hamas attacked.
Hamas thugs kidnapped her and took her back to Gaza. They celebrated as they paraded through the streets with her partially clothed motionless and battered body laid out in the back of a truck. In the midst of all the savagery, that was a particularly cruel note.
Louk's mother did not believe she was dead. Her mother thought that she might be alive in a hospital somewhere, not yet properly identified. She held out hope, but that hope has now been dashed.
Israel has now announced the young woman's death has been confirmed. The Foreign Ministry said they were "devastated " and "our hearts are broken."
We are devastated to share that the death of 23 year old German-Israeli Shani Luk was confirmed.
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) October 30, 2023
Shani who was kidnapped from a music festival and tortured and paraded around Gaza by Hamas terrorists, experienced unfathomable horrors.
Our hearts are broken 💔.
May her memory… pic.twitter.com/svSArX3XSx
Israel's President Isaac Herzog revealed the sad news during an interview with Bild.
Israel's president @Isaac_Herzog in our interview: „Only now we got the note that Shani Louk has been confirmed as murdered and dead. They found her skull which means these barbaric sadistic animals simply chopped off her head.“ pic.twitter.com/BKttGyS0TU
— Paul Ronzheimer (@ronzheimer) October 30, 2023
He said they "found her skull which means these barbaric sadistic animals simply chopped off her head.“ He extended his "deepest condolences" to her family.
In truth, what they found wasn't the whole skull.
Members of Louk’s family received a letter from the Israeli ZAKA rescue service Sunday night saying that a bone from the base of her skull, without which a person cannot survive, had been recovered, genetically tested and determined to have belonged to Shani.
It was already savage enough, but that just added another level to the brutality of the situation.
Louk's family said that they were sad that she was not coming back, but glad this gave them some clarity about her whereabouts and "a minute before the murderers came" that "she was dancing, she was happy."
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— Jimmy Tran 🇻🇳 (@thatjimmytr) October 30, 2023
Shani Louk, the 23 year-old German who was seen on Hamas videos ravaged and wounded displayed as a trophy in Gaza— has been found dead today.
IDF soldiers located her body in Gaza and brought her back to Israel.
This is the video of her dancing before the… pic.twitter.com/19JzGCOEjV
The left wants a ceasefire with people who would do such a thing to a young woman, a people who murdered grandmothers and babies, in the most gruesome ways, whose only desire is to treat people like this and wipe them off the face of the planet. How do you have a ceasefire with this? The only answer to such evil is to root it out and eliminate it, if you hope to survive.
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