Shani Louk ‘tortured and beheaded’ by Hamas in ‘unfathomable horror’ claims Israel after skull fragment of German found
ISRAEL claims Shani Louk was tortured and beheaded by Hamas monsters after a skull fragment revealed the "unfathomable horrors" done to her.
The tattoo artist, 22, had not been seen since her naked body was paraded by the sick terrorists after she was snatched during the Supernova festival bloodbath on October 7.
The family of the young German-Israeli woman had been desperately holding onto hope that Shani was alive and would one day be returned to them.
However, after three horrifying weeks of silence, Shani's mother Ricarda Louk announced that her much-loved daughter was dead.
"Unfortunately, we received news yesterday that my daughter is no longer alive," the heartbroken mother told German media today.
Shani's sister, Adi, also described on Instagram the "great sorrow" her family are feeling following the news.
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Her heartbroken dad said that Shani and her friends tried to escape the massacre in their car but ten minutes later they were met by armed Hamas terrorists who opened fire.
Mr Louk claimed his 22-year-old daughter was racing down the road to try and flee the terrorists but the gunmen "killed her on the spot".
He also contradicted the claims made by the Israeli president regarding his daughter's gruesome death, saying instead that she "did not suffer", reports Israeli news site .
It remains unclear, despite the Israeli government's claims, if Shani's remains were mutilated before or after her death.
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Israel's foreign ministry had earlier said they were "devastated" to discover that her body had been found and identified.
"Shani who was kidnapped from a music festival and tortured and paraded around Gaza by Hamas terrorists, experienced unfathomable horrors.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with Shani's friends and family during this unimaginable nightmare. May her memory be a blessing."
A DNA sample taken from part of a skull bone proved to be Shani's, however it's not clear when or where the fragment was found.
Doctors reportedly determined that a person could not survive without that fragment and concluded she was dead, The reports.
Israeli president Isaac Herzog fumed today: "This means that these barbaric, sadistic animals simply chopped off her head as they attacked, tortured and killed Israelis.
"It is a great tragedy and I extend my deepest condolences to her family," he told
Israel is still facing the horrifying task of identifying some 40 more bodies that are abused, burnt and mutilated beyond recognition.
“What we saw on the Gaza-Israel border goes far beyond a pogrom. We saw a slaughterhouse,” said Herzog.
“We saw the blood flowing on the streets. We have seen the most horrific tragedies imaginable.”
The exact circumstances around the German tattoo artist's death still remain unclear and Ricarda now believes she may have been dead since October 7.
The peace-lover, who allegedly refused to take part in Israel's mandatory military service, was kidnapped from the festival during the start of Hamas's surprise attack on southern Israel.
The trance party - designed as a celebration of "peace and love" - turned into a mass slaughter, etched forever in the minds of Israelis.
In the hours that followed the massacre, Ricarda recognised the lifeless, half-naked body of her daughter in horrifying footage that showed gun-toting Hamas terrorists spitting on her in a pickup truck.
At the time, Ricarda said "The video looks very bad but I still have hope. I hope she's still alive somewhere.
"We don't have anything else to hope for. We're trying to believe," she told CNN.
Shani's family heard nothing more for three days until they heard claims that the 22-year-old was allegedly in critical condition and being treated in a Gaza hospital.
Ricarda told : "We now have evidence that Shani is alive but has a serious head injury and is in critical condition. Every minute is critical."
She also made a public demand to German officials to work harder to get her daughter back.
"You have to act quickly and get Shani out of the Gaza Strip! We shouldn't argue about questions of jurisdiction now!"
Ricarda previously revealed her daughter's heroic last phone call.
The mum-of-four said she spoke to Shani briefly as the Palestinian terrorists began arriving on paragliders.
“Shani called her friends and told them not to come there. They were intercepted with guns.
"She said: 'Run away, Hamas is here'."
As Hamas retreated back into Gaza taking young hostages, 260 bodies of the unsuspecting ravers were found among the desert plains.
In the days after Shani vanished, The Sun revealed chilling texts were sent from the phone of her missing boyfriend Orión Hernández Radoux, 30.
Harrowing messages written in Arabic were sent from the Mexican dad's phone that say: "I spit on you" and "God damn you".
His family have pleaded for answers over his disappearance and fear that he too was abducted and is being held by Hamas.
One survivor of Hamas's attack on the festival told The Sun that the gunmen had "murder in their eyes".
Noa Beer, 29, helped three injured strangers and a DJ to escape in her Jeep while the indiscriminate slaughter of innocents continued around them in the desert.
“I thought I was going to die. I felt so helpless,"; she recalled.
“I was so scared. There was a terrorist straight ahead, shooting like crazy with murder in his eyes.
“In about ten seconds I saw more death than ever in my life."
This evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted Hamas "barbarians" who are looking to "destroy all that we cherish and usher in a world of fear and darkness".
Netanyahu confirmed that Israel will not agree to a ceasefire, just as the US would not after Pearl Harbour or 9/11.
He said: "Israel will not agree to a cessation of hostilities... calls for a ceasefire are calls for Israel to surrender to Hamas, to surrender to terrorism, to surrender to barbarism. That will not happen.
"The Bible says that there is a time for peace and a time for war, this is a time for war."
"Not a single civilian has to die," he says.
"Hamas merely has to let them go to the safe zone that we created in south-eastern Gaza Strip."
Over 1,400 Israelis were murdered by Hamas terrorists as they poured over the border and unleashed hell onto Israeli border towns, villages and the music festival on October 7.
In retaliation, Israel declared war on Hamas and has been pounding the Gaza Strip for weeks on end with air strikes and artillery.
Today, Israel's military said that they blitzed 600 terror targets inside Gaza in the past 24 hours in their biggest bombardment yet.
New footage shows Israeli tanks and troops storming through the wreckage of the besieged enclave as Israel Defence Forces plough on with their "second stage" of war.
The IDF also said it carried out air strikes on military infrastructure inside Syria as fears grow that its war against Hamas could spur a broader regional conflict.
It comes as the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said over 8,300 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's bombardment so far.
More than 3,257 children - including at least 3,195 in Gaza, 33 in the West Bank, and 29 in Israel - have been reportedly killed since the war began.
The IDF warned Gaza City residents on the weekend that the area is now a battlefield, as it stepped up its air campaign against the terror group.
Fighter jets dropped leaflets reading: “Shelters in northern Gaza and Gaza governorate are not safe.”
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One million civilians were urged to move south but hundreds of thousands are thought to remain.
