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The mother of Shani Louk, a 22-year-old German national believed to have been kidnapped by Hamas fighters during the militant group's surprise attack on Israel on Saturday, said on Tuesday that her daughter is alive.

Louk, a tattoo artist, was attending the Tribe of Nova music festival in the plains of the Negev Desert near Urim, close to the Gaza Strip, on Saturday when Hamas fighters stormed the event. She's believed to have been seized by the militants and paraded through the streets in the back of a pick-up.

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On Tuesday, Louk's family announced they had proof that Louk—who grew up in Israel—was alive. German news website Blick reported that her mother said she was in a hospital in Gaza with serious head injuries.

"We now have more information that Shani is alive," her mother told television channel NTV, adding she received the information from unnamed Palestinian sources.

The mother added that Louk is seriously injured, and asked the German government for help and quick action.

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[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 120 points 1 year ago

While I'm glad some good news came out of this, can we maybe focus on the 1,600 other people that are missing or died during the Hamas attack? News media has this obsession over reporting on young white females in peril.

[-] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago

With almost non-stop negative news the past few days, some positive news seems very welcome thb.

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

She's in a hospital with severe head injuries. And as someone else pointed out, it's a Gaza hospital, there's no place in Gaza that's safe right now from Israel's response.

This isn't positive news, it's slightly less bad news.

[-] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 year ago

Wait until you see what demographic Hamas kidnapped the most of.

[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 year ago

Reporting on brown, middle-eastern nationals? In a war in their own country? What is this woke bullshit?!

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[-] Redex68@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago

Damn that really is surprising. I'm glad that she's alive. Hope that she can return home safe.

[-] Travalanche@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Was it not her in the truck then? I thought the family had positively identified her by her tattoos.Though, you really can't see much of them in the video that went viral.

Either she was just unconscious or they are lying. But it seems pointless for the latter since they'd find out eventually, unless they plan on blaming her death on one of the bombs that are being dropped in Gaza. I guess we'll see if the family gets her back.

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[-] laylawashere44@lemmy.blahaj.zone 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So she is in a Gazan Hospital. The same Gazan hospitals that Israeli bombing has now overwhelmed and whose blockade is preventing humanitarian aid from entering. Hey maybe the UN was right in calling out that a total siege is illegal.

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[-] ComputerSagtNein@lemm.ee 44 points 1 year ago

Hope she's really alive, but her life will never be the same after these horrible events :(

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[-] roboticide@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

I feel like if Hamas knows what's good for them, they'll return any foreign nationals they have ASAP.

Beef with Israel is one thing, but "accidentally" kidnapping people from foreign countries you ostensibly want sympathy for is a bad move.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The thing is Israel has a very high rate of dual-nationals. A significant percentage of Israeli settlers are second or even first generation. So they either had a previous citizenship or are eligible for their parent's.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Probably not a good idea. Israel has 0 problem bombing palestinians indiscriminately but they might think twice about killing their foreign hostages.

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[-] theKalash@feddit.ch 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

German news website Blick

It's a Swiss news website ... blick.ch

edit: they fixed it

Swiss German-language news website Blick

[-] TheLobotomist@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

She looked pretty dead to me...

[-] madejackson@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Swiss here, Blick is known for low quality news. This is only a claim from some unknown party. Very likely untrue.

[-] cesium@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

My guess is that she "dies" in the hospital in a few days. Horrible situation.

What are the quotes for? Israel cut power to the hospital and she's in critical care.

[-] cesium@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

As in, she was probably already dead at the time the video was filmed.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

He's just trying to find ways to blame her death on Israel.

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[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Beaten, bleeding, and unconscious looks pretty similar to being dead tbh

[-] TheLobotomist@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
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[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

I hope she is. The way her leg and arm looked in the video was disturbing to say the least.

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The way her head looked was the disturbing part.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 year ago

in a hospital in Gaza

Somebody get her somewhere safe before Israel destroys that hospital

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