Hamas victims
Shani Louk’s mother continues to wait for body
The German-Israeli Shani Louk was killed by Hamas. photo
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The death of Shani Louk in the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7th moved many people. To this day, she has not been able to bury the German-Israeli’s mother.
Six months after the terrorist attack on Israel by the Islamist Hamas, the family of the German-Israeli is waiting Shani Louk continues looking at the young woman’s body. Her daughter’s remains are still in the Gaza Strip, Louk’s mother told WDR. “She is still considered a hostage. Her body is still being held there,” Ricarda Louk said in an interview.
Her relatives held a memorial service after the Israeli armed forces received news of the young woman’s death, but there has been no funeral to date. “We’re still waiting to get the body back. We’ll wait a year, until October 7th. If the body comes back, then we’ll have a proper burial, if not, we’ll probably put up an empty grave.” , continues Louk.
Meanwhile, she continues to hope that Shani Louk’s friend Orion will be released alive from being held hostage by Hamas. Her daughter actually wanted to introduce him to her in October, but then the massacre happened.
DNA sample gave the family certainty
Louk wanted to celebrate and dance like thousands of other young people at the Supernova festival in southern Israel on the night of October 7th. But the festival ended in the Hamas bloodbath. Several hundred people were killed at the party in the Negev desert alone – the terrorists killed more than 1,200 people in total. The Louk family assumes that the 22-year-old’s body was taken to the Gaza Strip. The family is convinced of her death because fragments of a vital skull bone were found, with which a DNA sample was taken.