[NY Post] The young German-Israeli tattoo artist who was paraded through the streets of Gaza after being kidnapped by Hamas has been found dead after "sadistic" terrorists "chopped off her head," Israel’s president revealed Monday.
"I am truly sorry to report that we have now received news that Shani Nicole Louk has been confirmed murdered and dead," President Isaac Herzog told the German newspaper Bild.
"Her skull was found," he said, with the 23-year-old victim’s family also confirming that the death was confirmed by DNA on parts of her skull.
"This means that these barbaric, sadistic animals simply chopped off her head as they attacked, tortured and killed Israelis.
"It is a great tragedy and I extend my deepest condolences to her family," the president said, according to a translation by i24 News.
"What we saw on the Gaza-Israel border goes far beyond a pogrom. We saw a slaughterhouse," he said.
"We saw the blood flowing in the streets. We have seen the most horrific tragedies imaginable," Herzog concluded.
Louk, 23, became a symbol of the horrors of Hamas when terrorists snatched her from the festival near Kibbutz Re’im as more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, were killed Oct. 7. |