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The Guardian - UK
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Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem

Family of Shani Louk, woman Hamas took to Gaza, confirm she was killed

Shani Louk, a young Israeli-German woman
Shani Louk. Her mother had said she last spoke to her daughter at the festival as gunfire rang out. Photograph: Instagram

A young Israeli-German woman whose fate became indelibly associated around the globe with the Hamas massacre and mass kidnapping rampage of 7 October was killed during the attack, her family has said.

Shani Louk, aged 22, was initially believed to have been kidnapped alive during Hamas’s assault on a music festival in Re’im, after she was paraded semi-naked through Gaza, apparently unconscious on the back of a pickup truck.

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