Woman kidnapped by Hamas at music festival is dead, family says

Shani Louk was attending the Supernova music festival during the Hamas incursion of Israel on October 7.

Woman kidnapped by Hamas at music festival is dead, family says
Shani Louk
Shani’s family has announced her death three weeks after the kidnapping by Hamas

A young woman who was kidnapped by Hamas and paraded half naked on the back of a truck is dead, her family has said.

Shani Louk, 22, was attending the Supernova music festival during the Hamas incursion of Israel on October 7 which saw around 1,400 people killed and around 200 taken as hostages.

There was hope Shani could be rescued alive as it was thought she could be in hospital in Gaza – but her mother, Ricarda, has now told German news outlets that her daughter is ‘no longer alive’, MailOnline reports.

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