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Killing of Shani Louk
| Killing of Shani Louk | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Re'im music festival massacre | |
 Shani Louk in March 2021 | |
| Location | Near Re'im, Israel |
| Date | 7 October 2023 |
Attack type | Homicide |
| Victim | Shani Louk, aged 22 |
| Burial | Funeral in Srigim on 19 May 2024 |
| Perpetrator |  Hamas |
On 7 October 2023, during the Re'im music festival massacre, Shani Nicole Louk (Hebrew: שני ניקול לוק), a 22-year-old German-Israeli tattoo artist and influencer, was killed. Shortly after the attack, a video circulated showing her body paraded through the streets of Gaza by Hamas militants in the back of a pickup truck. Described by security experts and commentators as Hamas's social media propaganda, it became one of the first viral videos of the Israel–Hamas war. The images became emblematic of militants' conduct toward civilians in the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel.[a][2][3]
Attention was also brought to Louk's case by her family, beginning with her mother Ricarda saying that she had received information that Louk was alive and in a Gaza hospital. She appealed to the German government and received responses from top-ranking German officials. German authorities considered Louk to be among their nationals taken hostage during the war.[4] At the end of the month, Israel confirmed Louk's death based on the discovery of a skull fragment on the road leading out of the festival grounds, indicating that she was killed during the attack, while trying to escape.[5][6] On 17 May 2024 Israeli forces recovered her body from a tunnel in Gaza, and she was buried in her hometown of Srigim a couple of days later.[7]
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Il était le petit ami de Shani Louk, cette germano-israélienne dont l'image du corps mutilé exposé à l'arrière d'un pick-up par des membres du Hamas est devenue le symbole des horreurs des attaques du 7 octobre. (transl. He was Shani Louk's boyfriend, the German-Israeli; the image of her mutilated body exposed in the back of a pickup truck by Hamas members became a symbol of the horrors of the October 7 attacks)
- ^ Giebel, Marcus (22 October 2023). "Nach Entführung von Shani Louk: Cousine bekommt Fake-Nachrichten über Geisel-Aufenthaltsort" [After Shani Louk's kidnapping: Cousin receives fake news about the hostage's whereabouts]. Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Retrieved 22 October 2023.
- ^ "Jahresrückblick 2023 von Studio Friedrichshafen: September bis Dezember" [2023 in review by Studio Friedrichshafen: September to December]. Südwestrundfunk (in German). 29 December 2023. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
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