Shani Louk

Shani Louk was born on 7 February 2001 to an Israeli father and German mother, Ricarda Louk, who had lived in Ravensburg, Germany, and moved to Israel in the early 1990s. Louk and her family moved to Portland, Oregon in the early 2000s, and she attended kindergarten at Portland Jewish Academy. She is a resident of Tel Aviv, where she works as a freelance tattoo artist and also has a following as an Instagram influencer

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Shani Nicole Louk (born 7 February 2001) is a German-Israeli tattoo artist and influencer who came to public attention[1] in the aftermath of the Re'im music festival massacre, as one of the festivalgoers who went missing, when a video was widely shared soon after the attack, showing her seemingly unconscious, being paraded in the streets of Gaza by Hamas militants in the back of a pickup truck. Described by security experts and commentators as Hamas' social media propaganda, it became one of the first viral videos of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war. Additional attention was brought to her case after her mother, who subsequently said that she had received information that Louk is alive and in a Gaza hospital, appealed to the German government for help. She has since been counted as one of the eight German nationals taken hostage during the war, according to the German authorities.

Some journalists have linked the spread of the video to the investigations undertaken by the European Commission against Twitter in 2023, for permitting distribution of illegal content.

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Shani Luk, the murdered German citizen, was in her early twenties and grew up in Israel before moving to Germany. A committed pacifist, she refused to serve in the army on ideological grounds, using her German passport.

She worked as a tattoo artist, was fond of nature, travels and electronic music. Her videos of the festival attacked by terrorists are still online. And then her stripped and mutilated body was driven through Gaza in a pick-up truck by Hamas militants shouting Allah Akbar. Shani's mother, Ricarda, pleaded for information about her fate, hoping that despite the horrific video, the girl was still alive.

None of the thugs even tried to hide their faces. And one of them, holding the girl's body by the hair, has now been identified.

His name is Mahmood Aburjil. He was so clueless that he uploaded a photo to his Google account of himself in the same clothes he wore during the terrorist attack.