We are devastated to share that the death of 23 year old German-Israeli Shani Luk was confirmed.

Shani who was kidnapped from a music festival and tortured and paraded around Gaza by Hamas terrorists, experienced unfathomable horrors.

Our hearts are broken 💔.

May her memory… pic.twitter.com/svSArX3XSx

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) October 30, 2023

Louk’s mother, Ricarda Louk, confirmed her daughter’s death to German media after previously expressing hopes that she was still alive, according to the BBC. Ricarda said that the Israeli government had told her that they had determined that her daughter was dead through a DNA sample taken from a skull fragment, but noted that her body had still not been found.

“At least she [Shani] didn’t suffer,” Ricarda said, according to the BBC.

[May her memory always be a blessing. And may we never forget the butchery and grotesque inhumanity of the terrorists that took her life along with hundreds of other unarmed civilians, and resolve to eradicate them from existence so as to prevent this from happening again. — Ed]