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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Friday that it had recovered the bodies of Israeli hostages Amit Buskila, Itzhak Gelerenter, and Shani Louk in a special operation overnight in the Gaza Strip. All three were murdered at the Supernova Music Festival in Re’im, in southern Israel, and their bodies taken to Gaza. Louk was killed and her body abused on the back of a pickup truck in one of the most infamous scenes of October 7. Gelerenter, 58, went missing on October 7 and his phone was later found by the IDF in Gaza. Buskila, 28, a fashion designer, had...

In the arts these days, they insist that context is everything. So what is one to make of this vile picture, of Hamas terrorists from the October 7 massacre proudly posing with their 'kill' on the bed of a pickup truck, the mangled, mutilated, body of a 22-year old woman, proudly preening and posing for their trusted photographer from the Associated Press? Shame on @RJI for awarding @AP 'Picture of the Year' award, of this image, which their Hamas-embedded photographer took of Shani Louk, as she was murdered, violated and thrown on back of pick-up truck! You must be so...

The heartbroken mother of a soldier held captive by Hamas terrorists today wept over her daughter's coffin after the 19-year-old and another hostage were found dead in Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital complex. That news came today, with the IDF confirming they had found the remains of Noa and another hostage Yehudit Weiss, 64, from a building adjacent to the hospital where Israeli soldiers are searching for a Hamas command centre. During the hospital raid in which Israeli troops found Noa and Yehudit's bodies, the IDF claimed its forces also found a tunnel shaft used by Hamas terrorists. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

I know, that isn’t exactly a news flash. But has there ever been more definitive proof than the silence of most feminists in the face of Gaza’s brutal assault on Israeli women? Caroline McCaughey writes in the New York Sun: One of the first videos uploaded to social media of the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7 showed the kidnapping of a 26-year-old Israeli, Noa Argamani, on the back of a motorcycle as she reaches out and screams, “Don’t kill me!” Another was of 23-year-old German national, Shani Louk, whose partially clothed, contorted body in the back of a pickup...

A 23-year-old German-Israeli woman was confirmed by Israel’s President Isaac Herzog on Monday to have been murdered by Hamas after she was abducted at a music festival in southern Israel during the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7. Shani Louk had attended the Nova music festival about three miles from the Gaza border near kibbutz Re’im, which was overrun by Hamas terrorists. The terrorists murdered revelers and forcibly seized dozens more as hostages among the more than 200 Israelis kidnapped and spirited to Gaza. A video published on social media depicted Hamas terrorists parading and degrading Louk’s naked body through Gaza...

The young German-Israeli tattoo artist who was paraded through the streets of Gaza after being kidnapped by Hamas has been found dead after “sadistic” terrorists “chopped off her head,” Israel’s president revealed Monday. “I am truly sorry to report that we have now received news that Shani Nicole Louk has been confirmed murdered and dead,” President Isaac Herzog told the German newspaper Bild. Shani Louk is believed to have been killed by Hamas terrorists. Instagram/hanukkk

The mother of Shani Louk, an Israeli-German woman thought to have been kidnapped by Hamas fighters at a music festival in Israel, says her daughter is dead. Speaking to German media, Ricarda Louk said she had been told by the Israeli military that a DNA sample taken from part of a skull bone proved to be Shani's. Her body has not yet been found. Shani's sister also confirmed the death on social media. The 22-year-old had been attending the festival near the Kibbutz Re'im when gunmen opened fire and sent terrified partygoers fleeing through the desert. Soon after the attack,...

Please meet Mahmoud Abourjila. He is one of the murderers of 22-year-old German-Israeli Shani Louk, whose half naked dead body was desecrated and paraded on a Hamas pick-up truck. He was identified by German internet users. The other men involved will also be identified. [pic.twitter.com/trEuXi5C8s] — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 9, 2023 [https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1711382803772801135]

Civilians in Gaza sheltered in fear amid constant bombardments targeting residential buildings and communications infrastructure on Monday, as Israeli officials vowed to further tighten a punishing siege of the densely populated enclave. “I can see the plumes of smoke from the bombings through my window,” said Rama Abu Amra, 21, from south of Gaza City. She screamed as the bang of a nearby explosion could be heard. “The bombs are falling all around us, we can’t even tell where they’re hitting. I can even smell the gunpowder now,” said the university student. “It’s so scary. We don’t know what’s happening...

Among them stands out the story of a couple, it is Shani Louk, an influencer of German-Israeli origin and a Mexican man known on social networks as Orion ChirrisWow. After the attack Shani Louk and Orion ChirrisWow were kidnapped, the 30-year-old woman was killed, as confirmed by the family of the young woman who was able to identify her in a video released by the extremists; while the Mexican is still missing. The electronic music festival, Tribe of Nova, was held Saturday night in a forested area near Re'im, near the Gaza Strip. Haaretz, a media of Israeli origin, which...

A body being paraded naked in a pickup truck by Hamas terrorists in a viral video amid the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict is being claimed to be of a German woman. Social media users have matched the clues of the woman’s body seen in the video with the pictures of a German woman — Shani Louk. Specifically, the tattoos spotted on the legs of the victim matched with that in Louk’s pictures, however an official statement on this is awaited. Shani Louk, a German tourist, had been attending the festival near the Gaza border when Hamas militants stormed the area, opening...

A woman whose lifeless and semi-naked body was paraded in the back of a Hamas pick-up truck as militants sat on top of her and jeered following their violent incursion was last night identified as a German tattoo artist. Shani Louk, 30, was at a music festival for peace when she was seized by terrorists as they attacked Israel in a surprise assault which has left at least 480 people dead and 3,200 injured. Her body was filmed splayed in the back of a truck, with one leg at an unnatural angle, terrorists sitting around it and supporters of the...

A Horrifying Act of Violence The world was shocked to learn about the brutal murder of Shani Louk, a young music enthusiast from Germany visiting Israel for a music festival. Shani was tragically kidnapped by Hamas militants, her life cut short in a senseless act of violence. Her body was later discovered in the back of a pickup truck, desecrated and paraded with a chilling disregard for the sanctity of life. But the horror didn’t end there. In a disturbing twist, images of Shani’s body were subsequently displayed on various social networks, sparking widespread outrage and condemnation. Consequences on Social...