Shani Louk’s mother has pleaded for the return of her daughter – or her body – after spotting her in the militants’ video.
A German-Israeli tattoo artist and an Israeli couple are among dozens of apparent kidnapping victims who have been identified by distraught family members from social media clips of their purported abductions, it was reported on Saturday. Many have complained the government is not helping them find their loved ones.
Tattoo artist Shani Louk is believed by members of her family to have been killed when Hamas raided the Nova Festival, an all-night rave near the Gaza border, early on Saturday morning. Her parents told the Washington Post that they recognized her tattoos and long dreadlocks in a widely shared Hamas hostage-taking video posted hours later, which appears to show her face-down and unconscious in the back of a pickup truck as militants surrounding her body cheer. After watching the video, Louk’s mother posted a plea for “any help or any news” of her daughter.
Another Nova Festival attendee, Noa Argamani, appears to plead for her life as she is carried away by militants on a motorcycle while her boyfriend, Avinatan Or, looks on helplessly in a clip that has been widely circulated on social media. Or’s brother, who was reportedly contacted by emergency services about the video, explained that “very long lists” of the missing and presumed kidnapped are circulating in social media groups as people missing loved ones take matters into their own hands.
Hamas claims to have taken hundreds of Israeli hostages on Saturday, transporting them to various locations inside Gaza. Militant leaders reportedly hope to trade the captives for imprisoned Hamas members. The number of hostages taken is “many times greater than what Netanyahu thinks,” a Hamas spokesman told the group’s Al-Aqsa TV channel, warning Israel to weigh its response carefully because “whatever happens to the people of the Gaza Strip will happen to” the captives.
Israel’s government press office has confirmed that more than 100 Israelis are currently being held prisoner in Gaza. However, officials said the government is not currently negotiating for the return of hostages and have denied reports that Egypt is negotiating with Hamas on Israel’s behalf. Media reports have placed the number of kidnapped Israelis at closer to 170, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged on Sunday that several Americans were also believed to be among the prisoners.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed former reservist brigadier general Gal Hirsch to oversee the search for missing and kidnapped Israelis.
More than 600 Israelis have been reported killed since Saturday, with at least 2,156 more said to be wounded, according to Israeli health authorities. The government has formally declared war against the militant group, while Netanyahu has promised to destroy Gaza with “mighty vengeance” in retaliation.
the psychopaats want war ;
https://www.infowars.com/posts/david-icke-whats-really-happening-in-israel/
Poor girl and others like her.
Poor in comprehension, that you cannot oppress, slaughter, enslave a whole people (Palestine) for decades and not expect repercussions.
Poor in judgement to have a rave party on the grounds of a historic Palestine village, erased and annexed by the Israelis in the 60s.
Poor in understanding of what j3wish settler expansion does to Palestine citizens, every day.
Poor to believe that one cannot expect a blissful peaceful existence while at the same time subjugating the people of the land.
Poor to realize that the j3ws treat Palestinians as they were treated throughout the centuries because of j3wish dogma that they are the chosen people, segregating themselves within their talmudic supremacy, racism and disdain for any other human.
There is absolutely NO justification for the barbaric attack on innocent civilians. Not a single one of your points can justify what Hamas has done in their latest attack. While I agree there are two sides to the historic troubles of this region, I think you need to do some very deep introspection if you find a single reason sufficient for the slaughter of innocent people. No one here is making a case for the suffering of innocent Palestinian but you are justifying the most heinous barbarity ehn it comes to the Israelis. Not a single political cause can justify what happened unless one succumb to being diabolical.
there are NO innocent civilians in Israel. They all have to go to and have army experience and know very well how to humiliate and repress and even murder palestinians. There have been enough published through the years to ignore how israel also shoot at kids throwing stones
What happened is terrible, but understandable.
I do not need to do very deep introspection into the status quo of Palestine, to realize, that when you live in fascist Israel, you offer a single reason sufficient for most Palestinians (and Arabs) to hate and kill you. .
That’s what 66 years of tyranny and inhuman treatment does to a people. EVERY single family has had family members murdered by Israelis, often kids and women, civilians., in their homes, camps, hospitals, schools.
And if you do not know what I’m talking about, go to Gaza.
Go soon so to seek some very deep introspection if you find a single reason sufficient for the slaughter of innocent people.
And do some history research. You need catching up.
i totally agree
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/04/gaza-strip-protesters-received-bullet-wounds-to-ankles-medics-report
Published oct 4th 2023
Blowback.
Excerpts from an interview with Zionist Historian, Benny Morris:
Q: Benny Morris, in the month ahead the new version of your book on the birth of the Palestinian refugee problem is due to be published. Who will be less pleased with the book – the Israelis or the Palestinians?
Morris: The revised book is a double-edged sword. It is based on many documents that were not available to me when I wrote the original book, most of them from the Israel Defense Forces Archives. What the new material shows is that there were far more Israeli acts of massacre than I had previously thought. To my surprise, there were also many cases of rape. In the months of April-May 1948, units of the Haganah [the pre-state defense force that was the precursor of the IDF] were given operational orders that stated explicitly that they were to uproot the villagers, expel them and destroy the villages themselves…….
According to your new findings, how many cases of Israeli rape were there in 1948?
About a dozen. In Acre four soldiers raped a girl and murdered her and her father. In Jaffa, soldiers of the Kiryati Brigade raped one girl and tried to rape several more. At Hunin, which is in the Galilee, two girls were raped and then murdered. There were one or two cases of rape at Tantura, south of Haifa. There was one case of rape at Qula, in the center of the country. At the village of Abu Shusha, near Kibbutz Gezer [in the Ramle area] there were four female prisoners, one of whom was raped a number of times. And there were other cases. Usually more than one soldier was involved. Usually there were one or two Palestinian girls. In a large proportion of the cases the event ended with murder. Because neither the victims nor the rapists liked to report these events, we have to assume that the dozen cases of rape that were reported, which I found, are not the whole story. They are just the tip of the iceberg.
According to your findings, how many acts of Israeli massacre were perpetrated in 1948?
Twenty-four. In some cases four or five people were executed, in others the numbers were 70, 80, 100. There was also a great deal of arbitrary killing. Two old men are spotted walking in a field – they are shot. A woman is found in an abandoned village – she is shot. There are cases such as the village of Dawayima [in the Hebron region], in which a column entered the village with all guns blazing and killed anything that moved.
The worst cases were Saliha (70-80 killed), Deir Yassin (100-110), Lod (250), Dawayima (hundreds) and perhaps Abu Shusha (70). There is no unequivocal proof of a large-scale massacre at Tantura, but war crimes were perpetrated there. At Jaffa there was a massacre about which nothing had been known until now. The same at Arab al Muwassi, in the north. About half of the acts of massacre were part of Operation Hiram [in the north, in October 1948]: at Safsaf, Saliha, Jish, Eilaboun, Arab al Muwasi, Deir al Asad, Majdal Krum, Sasa. In Operation Hiram there was a unusually high concentration of executions of people against a wall or next to a well in an orderly fashion.
That can’t be chance. It’s a pattern. Apparently, various officers who took part in the operation understood that the expulsion order they received permitted them to do these deeds in order to encourage the population to take to the roads. The fact is that no one was punished for these acts of murder. Ben-Gurion silenced the matter. He covered up for the officers who did the massacres.
https://logosjournal.com/morris.htm
Karma is a b****.
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=190468
https://peoplesworld.org/article/israeli-government-welcomes-azov-battalion-leader-as-honored-guest/