If necessary, the grave remains empty
Shani Louk’s mother is still waiting for body
April 5, 2024, 9:49 p.m
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The family of the German-Israeli Hamas victim Shani Louk cannot find peace. DNA comparisons with bone remains show that the young woman must have died on October 7th in southern Israel. But her body remains missing. There is no funeral yet.
Six months after the terrorist attack on Israel by the terrorist organization Hamas, the family of the German-Israeli Shani Louk continues to wait for 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.
Shani Louk’s friend Orion still held hostage
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.
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. The Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed the death of the woman with German and Israeli citizenship on the online service X in October. “Shani, who was kidnapped from a music festival and tortured by Hamas terrorists and paraded around the Gaza Strip, experienced unimaginable horrors,” it said. Israeli President Isaac Herzog expressed his condolences to the family.