An Israeli soldier patrols on October 12, 2023 near Kibbutz Beeri, the place where 270 revellers were killed by militants during the Supernova music festival on October 7., formerly Twitter. “We are devastated to share that body,” it read, “was found and identified.”
The statement alleged that the young woman, prior to her death, was “tortured and paraded around Gaza by Hamas terrorists.” Louk was one of thousands of festival-goers attacked by Hamas on Oct. 7, when the terrorist group surrounded and gunned down Nova attendants that morning and throughout the day. Earlier this month, Louk’s mother, Ricarda, told CNN that she last spoke to her daughter after hearing rockets and alarms sounding in southern Israel. Shani told her mother she was at the festival, but there were few places to hide.
“She was going to her car and they had military people standing by the cars and were shooting so people couldn’t reach their cars, even to go away,” Ricarda said at the time. “And that’s when they took her.”, Louk’s body was captured on video prior to her death, seemingly unconscious in the back of a Hamas truck after the festival attack.
Hundreds of bodies were found onsite after the massacre, which was part of a wider Hamas attack on Israel that claimed approximately 1,400 lives. Around 200 peoplefor a United Nations resolution and “sustained humanitarian truce” in Gaza; meanwhile, Israel’s military announced plans to expand ground operations.