The Israeli army announced that it has recovered the bodies of three hostages in the Gaza Strip. Among them there is also that of Shani Louk, the young woman with dual Israeli and German citizenship arrested by Hamas at the rave party on 7 October.
The Israeli army announced today with a message published on X that they had recovered the lifeless bodies of three hostages in the Strip Gaza. They are two women and a man. Among them too Shani Loukthe 23 year old with dual German and Israeli citizenship, kidnapped last October 7 by Hamas at the Nova Festival in the Re’em kibbutz.
Along with her, the IDF also recovered the bodies of Itzhak Gelerenter And Amit Buskil. The three were attending the Supernova music festival stormed on October 7. All – the army spokesperson announced today Daniel Hagari – had managed to escape initially in the area of Mefalsimwhere they then stayed killed. The lifeless bodies were taken to the Gaza Strip, where they were then recovered during a joint nighttime operation by the army and the Shin Bet.
There death of Shani Louk it had been announced by the mother shortly after the kidnapping, which took place on 7 October. The images that portrayed the girl limp on a pick-up of Hamas had gone around the world. Indeed, one of those shots was awarded Team Picture Story of the Year, “Photo of the Year” from the Reynolds Journalism Institute of the University of Missouri (United States), sparking a series of controversies in Tel Aviv.
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The shot was taken by a Palestinian freelancer from the agency AP, Wings Mahmoud: in the image you can see the semi-naked body of Shani Louk, with the broken legs, while a man spits on her head and others laugh at her, all in a white pickup truck driving in the desert. “Palestinian militants return to the Gaza Strip with the body of Shani Louk, a German-Israeli citizen, during their cross-border attack on Israel, Saturday, October 7, 2023,” the caption read.
The Pope However, he had intervened to silence the girl’s concerns controversies: “It’s good that the photo won the prize, it is one of the most important photos of the last 50 years. These are some of the photos that shape human memory, the Jew raising his hands, the paratroopers at the Wailing Wall, photos which symbolize an era”, he commented to the local press.
