The family of Shani Louk, 22, a German-Israeli woman who was believed to have been abducted to the Gaza Strip during Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, is informed of her death.
“Unfortunately we received the news yesterday that my daughter is no longer alive,” Louk’s mother Ricarda tells the German outlet RTL.
Ricarda Louk first raised the alarm about her daughter after she recognized her in videos circulating online, due to her striking tattoos and dyed hair.
The videos showed a half-naked woman lying seemingly unconscious face-down in the back of a pickup truck in Gaza filled with armed men.
She was taken when terrorists attacked a rave party in the desert near the border with the Gaza Strip.
Though Louk has been declared dead, her body has not been returned from Gaza.
Members of Louk’s family are quoted in Hebrew media as saying that they received a letter from the Israeli Zaka rescue service saying that a bone from the base of her skull, without which a person cannot survive, had been recovered and identified.
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