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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Friday that it had recovered the bodies of Israeli hostages Amit Buskila, Itzhak Gelerenter, and Shani Louk in a special operation overnight in the Gaza Strip. All three were murdered at the Supernova Music Festival in Re’im, in southern Israel, and their bodies taken to Gaza. Louk was killed and her body abused on the back of a pickup truck in one of the most infamous scenes of October 7. Gelerenter, 58, went missing on October 7 and his phone was later found by the IDF in Gaza. Buskila, 28, a fashion designer, had...

The father of murdered Israeli concert-goer Shani Louk appeared Monday night at a pro-Israel rally in Times Square, where he said the enduring image of her lifeless body being paraded around by Hamas terrorists illustrates the “darkness” the Jewish state is fighting against. Nissim Louk told The Post that before-and-after photos of his 23-year-old German Israeli daughter on Oct. 7 — which appeared in countless newspapers the next day — emphasize what’s at stake in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. One photo shows the young tattoo artist joyfully dancing at a music festival in Israel and the other...

The Associated Press has won a prestigious journalism prize for its photo essay “Israel and Hamas War,” which includes a photo of the abduction of Shani Louk by terrorists on October 7. The photo, which Pictures of the Year International features on the first slide of a celebratory post on Instagram, shows a half-naked woman lying seemingly unconscious face-down in the back of a pickup truck filled with armed men. Louk, 22, was at the Supernova music festival on October 7, when terrorists mowed down attendees with gunfire and grenades, killing some 360 people and abducting dozens more, mostly civilians,...

A body being paraded naked in a pickup truck by Hamas terrorists in a viral video amid the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict is being claimed to be of a German woman. Social media users have matched the clues of the woman’s body seen in the video with the pictures of a German woman — Shani Louk. Specifically, the tattoos spotted on the legs of the victim matched with that in Louk’s pictures, however an official statement on this is awaited. Shani Louk, a German tourist, had been attending the festival near the Gaza border when Hamas militants stormed the area, opening...

A Horrifying Act of Violence The world was shocked to learn about the brutal murder of Shani Louk, a young music enthusiast from Germany visiting Israel for a music festival. Shani was tragically kidnapped by Hamas militants, her life cut short in a senseless act of violence. Her body was later discovered in the back of a pickup truck, desecrated and paraded with a chilling disregard for the sanctity of life. But the horror didn’t end there. In a disturbing twist, images of Shani’s body were subsequently displayed on various social networks, sparking widespread outrage and condemnation. Consequences on Social...