Killed Shani Louk’s body is said to have been found

22-year-old Shani Louk was abducted by Hamas on October 7.

Now her body has been found, the Israeli military says.

22-year-old German-Israeli Shani Louk was abducted by Hamas during a music festival in Israel on October 7.

Her fate has received worldwide attention. Among other things through a video clip that circulated on social media where she, seemingly lifeless, is lying on the back of a pickup truck, surrounded by armed men.

– You can’t even understand it at that moment, that this is your own daughter who was thrown onto a pickup truck, half undressed, with blood on her head. And then they drive through the streets of Gaza, all cheering and rejoicing and spitting at Shani. It was like a horror movie, the mother has previously told German Faz.

Now the body has been found

Barely four weeks later, the mother announced that her daughter had died.

The information came to her via the Israeli military. A chip from a skull bone had been DNA-tested and given a hit.

Just over six months later, Shani Louk’s body has now been found, as the BBC reports.

It is the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) that during an operation, on the night of Friday, should have retrieved the bodies of three hostages from Gaza. One of them should belong to Shani Louk, the other two Itzik Gelernter and Amit Buskila, who were also taken hostage on October 7.

Under an agreement reached in November, Hamas released 105 hostages in exchange for a week-long ceasefire and about 240 Palestinian prisoners.

After October 7, Israel launched an offensive in Gaza that is said to have killed about 35,000 people, most of them civilians, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry.

According to the UN, over two million Palestinians are now in urgent need of food, shelter and other assistance.