Shani Louk’s family blast German government for ignoring their plea for help – after they were told she is still alive in Gaza after being abducted and paraded on Hamas truck in Israel
Family members of missing Shani Louk, whose body was paraded by Hamas gunmen after the Nova Rave attack in Israel, have attacked the German government for ignoring their pleas for help after being told she was still at large alive in Gaza.
Louk’s aunt Orly Louk and her uncle Wilfried Gehr today pleaded with the German government in a TV interview on the ‘ZDF heute’ program.
“We have been begging the German government for help for three days.
“We are concerned and completely disappointed that the federal government is not being held accountable. One from the Foreign Ministry said that there is no time because they have to rebook the flights. This makes me so angry.’
Shani, 22, is German but grew up in Israel, and was one of hundreds of unsuspecting attendees at the Nova festival where Hamas massacred some 260 civilians.
According to Der Spiegel magazine, the tattoo artist and pacifist has never lived in Germany, but has a German passport and has visited her grandparents in Ravensburg in the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg several times.
It comes a day after Shani’s mother Ricarda – a Catholic who later converted to Judaism and immigrated to Israel – revealed she received word from Palestine that her daughter is still alive.
The news gave new hope after videos emerged of an unconscious and partially naked Shani being paraded through the streets by Hamas terrorists as onlookers spat on her motionless body.
Shani Louk, 22 (pictured), was at a music festival for peace when he was seized by Hamas terrorists, who stormed the event and massacred 260 Israeli revelers during their attack on Israel.
Shani Louk (right) is pictured next to her cousin
Shocking footage shared on social media appears to show Palestinian fighters parading Shan’s partially naked body in the back of a truck.
Orly Louk, the aunt of 22-year-old Shani Louk, sits on a sofa and shows a photo of her niece as she lashes out at the German government’s indifference to her plight.
Shani, 22, is German but grew up in Israel and was one of hundreds of unsuspecting attendees at the Nova festival where Hamas massacred some 260 civilians.
Ricarda Louk told the German newspaper Bild Tuesday“Now we have evidence that Shani is alive, but he has a serious head injury and is in critical condition. Every minute is critical.
“You must act quickly and get Shani out of the Gaza Strip!” she declared in her message to German officials. We don’t have to discuss matters of jurisdiction now!’
Orly said Shani had refused to take the military service that is compulsory for Israelis because of her pacifist views, adding that her German passport helped.
Ricarda earlier released a shocking video pleading for help to find out what happened to her daughter.
Holding a picture of Shani on her mobile phone, Ricarda said on Sunday: ‘This morning my daughter, Shani Nicole Louk, a German citizen, was kidnapped with a group of tourists in southern Israel by the Palestinian Hamas.
“We were sent a video in which I could clearly see our daughter unconscious in the car with the Palestinians and them driving through the Gaza Strip.
“I ask you to send us some help or some news. Thank you very much.’
The video shows a smiling Shani, who loved traveling with her family, dancing at the music festival moments before she was captured by the terrorists.
Shani’s mother Ricarda holds up a picture of her daughter on her mobile phone in an emotional video appeal pleading for help to find out what happened to her daughter
Shani, who grew up in Israel but held a German passport, had refused to take up the military service that is compulsory for Israelis because of her views.
Hamas had claimed the body was that of a female Israeli soldier – but it was confirmed to be Shani by her cousin Tomasina Weintraub-Louk, who told MailOnline the family recognized her by her distinctive leg tattoos and curly hair.
She said: “We haven’t heard anything. We hope for positive news. It is definitely Shani.
“She was at a music festival for peace. This is a nightmare for our family.’
Tomasina said she and other family members had tried desperately to contact Shani as well as her Mexican boyfriend, but they had been unsuccessful.
“We knew she was at the party, she didn’t answer,” Tomasina said.
Her parents say they have not heard from their daughter since a phone call early Saturday, just after Hamas fired the first rockets.
But her family said they have since received information from her bank that Shani’s credit card was used in Gaza.
German tattoo artist Shani Louk, who is in her early 20s, was in Israel to participate in a peace rally.
Her family, who desperately hope Shani is still alive despite the sightings of her body, said she was a pacifist and a peace fighter who was known for her involvement in organizing music festivals.
Palestinian fighters can be seen cheering and walking away as Shani’s body lies motionless in the back of the truck
The tragedy comes as Palestinian militants launched their worst offensive in 50 years on Saturday in unprecedented land, sea and air strikes – even using planes to avoid detection.
In a coordinated and multi-pronged attack, Palestinian terrorists crossed into Israel from the Gaza Strip, overrunning settlements and capturing and killing civilians celebrating a Jewish holiday.
Dozens of people are suspected to have been abducted from the street and returned to Gaza, or simply killed on the spot.
The music festival Shani attended was one of the first venues to be attacked by the terrorist group, with 260 revelers massacred there.
Survivors described how the gunmen went ‘tree by tree’ executing the victims.
Clips posted on social media show revelers were forced to hide under bushes and record silent goodbye messages to their loved ones as they watched the victims being killed one by one.
Many were still terrified for more than five hours before they heard the sound of armed rescuers speaking in Hebrew.
The Palestinian terror group attacked the Nova Festival taking place near Kibbutz Re’im, near the Gaza Strip, as part of its surprise attack launched on Saturday.
This morning, chilling CCTV footage from the incident showed gunmen executing civilians as they lay on the sand before pocketing rifles and emptying bags from their cars.
Palestinian militants wave their weapons as they drive through Israeli territory in trucks
Israeli civilians and soldiers left the road and returned to Gaza
In a second video widely shared on social media, a woman screams ‘Don’t kill me!’ can be seen being driven away on a motorcycle by a gunman.
She has since been identified as Noa Argamani, 25, a student who was caught at the same outdoor peace festival she attended with her boyfriend near the border.
Esther Borochov, who fled the rampage party, said she survived by playing dead in a car after the driver who was trying to help her escape was shot at point blank range.
The bodies of Israeli civilians were scattered through the streets of Sderot in southern Israel, near Gaza, surrounded by broken glass. The bodies of a woman and a man were lying across the front seats of a car.
“I went outside, I saw a lot of bodies of terrorists, civilians, shot cars. A sea of bodies, inside Sderot along the road, other places, loads of bodies”, said Shlomi from Sderot.
Terrified Israelis, trapped in safe rooms, told their plight by phone on live TV.
Other footage showed captured soldiers and civilians – some dead – parading through the streets of Gaza.
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