Back Assassinat de Shani Louk Catalan Tod von Shani Louk German Asesinato de Shani Louk Spanish Mort de Shani Louk French רצח שני לוק HE シャニ・ルークの殺害 Japanese 샤니 루크 살해 Korean Assassinato de Shani Louk Portuguese Убийство Шани Лук Russian Kidnapping of Shani Louk SIMPLE

Killing of Shani Louk

Killing of Shani Louk
Part of the Re'im music festival massacre
Shani Louk in March 2021
LocationNear Re'im, Israel
Date7 October 2023
Attack type
Homicide
VictimShani Louk, aged 22
BurialFuneral 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 through the campaign of her family, which began 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]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Beaumont was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  3. ^ "Guerre Israël-Hamas : Ofer, Ohad, Eliya, Orion... Qui sont les quatre otages français toujours retenus ?" [Israel-Hamas war: Ofer, Ohad, Eliya, Orion... Who are the four French hostages still being held?]. Sud Ouest (in French). 1 December 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023. 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)
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "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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  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Ravid-May-18 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).


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