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The mother of a German tattoo artist who was believed to have been killed during Hamas’s attack on Supernova music festival has claimed her daughter is still alive.
Shani Nicole Louk was believed dead after being attacked at the Supernova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im, in Israel’s south.
Horrific video footage showed Shani, partially naked and apparently unconscious, being paraded through the streets on the back of a pickup truck as onlookers spat on her.
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Hamas had previously claimed the body was a female Israeli soldier – but Shani’s cousin, Tomasina Weintraub-Louk, was able to identify her by her dreadlocked hair and leg tattoos.
Palestinian sources have now told her family that Shani is in a Hamas hospital.
Her mother, Ricarda Louk, told German outlet Bild: ‘We now have evidence that Shani is alive but has a serious head injury and is in critical condition. Every minute is critical.’
In a message to German officials she added: ‘You have to act quickly and get Shani out of the Gaza Strip!
‘We shouldn’t argue about questions of jurisdiction now!’
Shani grew up in Israel but has a German passport. She was a conscientious objector to mandatory military service in the Israeli military due to her pacifist views.
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