UPDATE: We have reports that Louk might still be alive. Though Palestinian sources, her mother said her daughter was alive but suffering from severe head injuries. She's reportedly in a Gaza hospital. The headline and post have been changed to reflect this development.
The German government has confirmed that Shani Louck, the festival goer who was seen stripped naked on a Hamas truck is still alive. However, she is seriously injured and in need of care. pic.twitter.com/iwbWhHhGsc
— Shaiel Ben-Ephraim (@academic_la) October 10, 2023
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It’s a horrific video. Shani Louk was attending the Nova music festival in Southern Israel when Hamas launched a surprise attack that killed at least 700 Israelis on October 7. This event became a mass casualty event, where 260 people were killed. Around 1,000 Hamas terrorists stormed multiple points along the border in Gaza. They began killing everyone they could see, going house-to-house to murder innocent civilians, and kidnapping at least 100 more.
Louk was one of those victims whose body was stripped, paraded, and desecrated by Hamas operatives. Her mangled body in the back of a pick-up truck that was spit on by terrorists was featured in one of the many videos posted about this massacre, which her parents watched and identified her through the tattoos she has on her body. Louk holds both German and Israeli citizenship, but we might have been able to identify one of her alleged attackers. Supposedly done by German internet sleuths, it’s certainly an interesting development, but nothing has been confirmed yet:
BREAKING:
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 9, 2023
German internet users have been able to identify one of Hamas men who murdered the 22-year-old German-Israeli Shani Louk (the woman whose body was seen on a pick-up truck)
His name is Mahmoud Abourjila
His pictures will be provided in the comments below⬇️ pic.twitter.com/nTd1QL3kH5
Most of the pictures uploaded on his phone's Google account have tagged locations.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 9, 2023
Most of them are ca 15km from where Shani was attacked.
In a picture dated from August 22nd, he was wearing the same same polo-shirt as Shani's murderer from the pick-up truck video.
(3/?) pic.twitter.com/7Qy0hLXDh3
What is confirmed is that the woman in the video is Shani Louk (via NY Post):
Shani Louk was among the hundreds of victims in Israel when Hamas hit the dance party near Kibbutz Urim and other Israeli communities.
The cruel attack in the Jewish state has led to the deaths of over 600 Israelis with more than 1,500 injured and dozens more kidnapped.
As disturbing footage of the violence quickly spread online, family members recognized Shani, in her early 20s, in a video, her first cousin told the Washington Post.
Armed terrorists chanted “Allahu Akbar” — Arabic for “God is great” — as they paraded her body around.
Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip with airstrikes for days, as tanks, heavy equipment, and troops amassed at the border. Hundreds of thousands of reservists are being mobilized for a ground assault that could last for weeks. This terror attack was Israel’s 9/11. They’re aiming to eradicate Hamas.