• By Kamal Kumar
  • Mon, 30 Oct 2023 03:53 PM (IST)
  • Source:JND
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Israel-Hamas War Live Updates:  Israel Defence Forces on Monday identified and recovered the body of 23-year-old German-Israeli woman Shani Louk from inside Gaza, the official national X (formerly Twitter) handle of Israel wrote in a post. Shani Louk was one of the victims of Hamas's October 7 attack on the Re'im music festival, an open-air psychedelic trance music festival celebrating the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. She was apprehended by Hamas, following which videos of militants parading her naked body in an open truck surfaced on social media.

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Gaza residents were seen spitting on her bullet-ridden, semi-naked body, while a masked militant was seen putting his knee on her chest. The graphic visuals, among the first to come out in the open, had left the world shocked, sparking huge condemnation by the global community.

Taking to the X (formerly Twitter), the official state handle of Israel shared the bad news, "We are devastated to share that the body of 23-year-old German-Israeli Shani Louk was found and identified. Shani who was kidnapped from a music festival and tortured and paraded around Gaza by Hamas terrorists, experienced unfathomable horrors."

The post further mourned her death by writing, "Our hearts are broken. May her memory be a blessing."

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Earlier, though she was declared dead her body was not recovered. Shani's family members while confirming the news of her death said that the Israeli Zaka rescue service informed them about the recovery of her bones. However, previously her mother had requested the German government to bring back her daughter, who she claimed was alive and in a Gaza hospital.