Israeli authorities have confirmed the death of Shani Louk, a 23-year-old Israeli-German woman who was taken by Hamas militants during an attack on the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7.
According to the BBC, Louk’s death was confirmed after investigators matched her DNA with a sample taken from a skull bone fragment. It’s not yet clear where or when the skull fragment was found. Louk’s body also hasn’t been located yet.
As such, an exact cause of death hasn’t been officially determined. Speaking with the German TV news channel RTL/ntv, Louk’s mother, Ricarda, said she believed her daughter may have been shot in the head during the attack. “At least she didn’t suffer,” Ricarda said.
On Twitter, the Israel Foreign Ministry said, “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 be a blessing.”
Who the fuck downplays a death with other deaths? Hamas fucking invaded that festival and killed people like barbars. They are terrorists, islamic extremists on top. Why can’t people just condemn this act? Who the fuck thinks this kind of attack is a legit reaction on the situation in Gaza?
At least put some actual numbers and post some facts. By your calculation all people in Gaza would be dead within less than 2 years, assumed everybody who lives there is a kid.
Lemmy and especially the world news community is crazy these days.
It’s just a bit weird to see this death paraded around the internet to condemn Hamas while Israel is killing thousands more.
Kind of makes it seem like “their lives worth less than this teenager’s.”
Where are the individual articles for each person Israel killed? You know what they say, one death is a tragedy, thousands are a statistic.
Enjoy some numbers and facts: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/29/more-childrens-deaths-in-gaza-in-3-weeks-than-annual-total-since-2019-ngo
The source you provided states 3324 children have died and another 1000 missing since Oct 7. Not “3000 killed every day”, as you claimed.
Those numbers are still horrifying, but should not be used to belittle cruelty of terrorism. Whataboutism is futile.
I’m curious, do you consider the IDF to be terrorists?
“only 3000 in total” holy fuck dude
That’s not what the other person said, and misusing quotes like that on a serious topic like this is egregiously disingenuous. If that was your takeaway, then you really ought to take a step back, take a deep breath, and recollect yourself before commenting again, because you’re really missing the mark here.
Look, if you’re upset that a pretty white girl is getting a disproportionate amount of media attention, then just say that. That’s a valid criticism of the news cycle. Maybe you could make a commentary about “Missing white woman syndrome” or something. But to make comparisons over which terrorist organization is a worse terrorist organization than the other is just asinine. The IDF and Hamas are both terrorist groups, it doesn’t matter which one has killed more children; they’re both killing children. Neither side is worth defending, they’re both inhumane groups killing each other’s and their own innocents.
They’re a troll, a bad one at that.
Arguing in bad faith like this will only get rubes to follow you… Oh, wait, that’s exactly what you and the tankies on Hexbear are trying to do.
Your article cites Save the Children wich is “referencing Palestinian health authorities”. Trust me bro. Al Jazzeera, a quatari state-owned media outlet, seems not like the best source for information
Their numbers have been repeatedly scrutinised and found credible. They’re slightly higher than is truly verifiable, but we’re talking ~5% differences here, not orders of magnitude.