The 22-year-old German national's mother said she had received news that her daughter is in a hospital in Gaza.

The mother of Shani Louk, a 22-year-old German national believed to have been kidnapped by Hamas fighters during the militant group’s surprise attack on Israel on Saturday, said on Tuesday that her daughter is alive.

Louk, a tattoo artist, was attending the Tribe of Nova music festival in the plains of the Negev Desert near Urim, close to the Gaza Strip, on Saturday when Hamas fighters stormed the event. She’s believed to have been seized by the militants and paraded through the streets in the back of a pick-up.

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On Tuesday, Louk’s family announced they had proof that Louk—who grew up in Israel—was alive. German news website Blick reported that her mother said she was in a hospital in Gaza with serious head injuries.

“We now have more information that Shani is alive,” her mother told television channel NTV, adding she received the information from unnamed Palestinian sources.

The mother added that Louk is seriously injured, and asked the German government for help and quick action.

  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    15126·
    1 year ago

    While I’m glad some good news came out of this, can we maybe focus on the 1,600 other people that are missing or died during the Hamas attack? News media has this obsession over reporting on young white females in peril.

    • Zoldyck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      917·
      1 year ago

      With almost non-stop negative news the past few days, some positive news seems very welcome thb.

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        347·
        1 year ago

        She’s in a hospital with severe head injuries. And as someone else pointed out, it’s a Gaza hospital, there’s no place in Gaza that’s safe right now from Israel’s response.

        This isn’t positive news, it’s slightly less bad news.

    • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3914·
      1 year ago

      Reporting on brown, middle-eastern nationals? In a war in their own country? What is this woke bullshit?!

      • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        37·
        1 year ago

        Israel is an occupying force in Palestine. It’s not “their own country,” just because they say it is and have the US military to back them up.