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brooklynite

(96,882 posts)
Mon Oct 30, 2023, 07:58 AM Oct 2023

German-Israeli woman kidnapped at music festival has been found dead, Israel's foreign ministry says

CNN

Shani Louk, a German-Israeli woman kidnapped by Hamas gunmen during the October 7 attack and taken to Gaza, has been found dead, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.

“We are devastated to share that the body of 23 year old German-Israeli Shani (Louk) was found and identified,” the ministry posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday.
Louk was at the Nova music festival in southern Israel on October 7 when Hamas breached the border between Gaza and Israel. They blocked off the road to the festival from the north and the south, before swarming the sprawling site on foot, videos showed. The militants then encircled the crowds on three sides, gunning them down and forcing them to flee over fields to the east.

More than 260 bodies were found at the Nova festival site itself, according to Israeli rescue service Zaka but, based on CNN's analysis, the total death toll could be even higher.

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German-Israeli woman kidnapped at music festival has been found dead, Israel's foreign ministry says (Original Post) brooklynite Oct 2023 OP
Disgusted. Come on Israel. Get rid of the Hamas terrorists now! jimfields33 Oct 2023 #1
No terrorists. Please call them militants or fighters. Freedom fighters dalton99a Oct 2023 #7
And yet... Richard D Oct 2023 #2
Don't expect any expression of outrage from the Usual Suspects. Happy Hoosier Oct 2023 #3
Well, that's what she gets SickOfTheOnePct Oct 2023 #9
Taking and killing civilian hostages edhopper Oct 2023 #4
We don't talk about Hamas' war crimes ripcord Oct 2023 #14
Hamas is like Bruno edhopper Oct 2023 #15
Fucking animals dalton99a Oct 2023 #5
Barbarians. nt LexVegas Oct 2023 #6
They found her head Arazi Oct 2023 #8
I believe it was part of her skull. Ace Rothstein Oct 2023 #10
There is a video of Hamas trying to decapitate a Thai worker with a garden tool dalton99a Oct 2023 #11
The stories from Oct 7 just keep getting worse. Patton French Oct 2023 #13
This is why Hamas needs to be destroyed rollin74 Oct 2023 #12

dalton99a

(95,240 posts)
7. No terrorists. Please call them militants or fighters. Freedom fighters
Mon Oct 30, 2023, 10:55 AM
Oct 2023

Hamas are people too





Happy Hoosier

(9,622 posts)
3. Don't expect any expression of outrage from the Usual Suspects.
Mon Oct 30, 2023, 10:17 AM
Oct 2023

They'll be in the threads accusing Israel of "genocide."

dalton99a

(95,240 posts)
11. There is a video of Hamas trying to decapitate a Thai worker with a garden tool
Mon Oct 30, 2023, 11:01 AM
Oct 2023
The images included piles of burned bodies, a baby shot in its bed, civilians lying dead in cars and in the street, and a gagged woman who had been burned to death.

In his address, Erdan showed the General Assembly a brief video of a Hamas terrorist trying to decapitate a Thai worker with a garden tool during the October 7 onslaught.

“I have seen much footage over the past weeks that will be seared into my mind forever, but there is one sight that I keep on seeing when I try to sleep. In the video, one can see a terribly injured civilian – bloodied, yet alive – laying on the ground as a Hamas savage screaming Allahu Akbar repeatedly pummels the man’s neck with a garden hoe in order to decapitate him,” the UN envoy said.

“The man on the ground is an agricultural worker from Thailand. He is not Israeli. He is not Jewish. He was merely alive, trying to make a living for his family. But he was decapitated with a blunt gardening tool. Horrifying! Israel is not at war with human beings, we are at war with monsters,” he added.

https://www.nationthailand.com/world/middle-east-africa/40032287

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