Ricarda Look with her 22-year-old daughter Shani, who was killed by Hamas militants during the October 7 attacks. Photo: CEN
Hamas terrorist The mother of a victim who paraded the body of a German festival-goer across Gaza has been killed, the victim's mother has said, calling for a hostage deal to free those still held by the terror group.
Shani Luk, 22 years old. The two-year-old Israeli-German citizen was killed by Hamas militants at the Nova music festival in southern Israel on October 7.
Luca's mother, Ricarda, 53, said one of the men who later grabbed her daughter's body drove through Gaze in the back of a pickup truck, was killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
She did not say how she knew the man was dead, nor did she provide any details about how or when she believed he was killed.
It is unclear which of the four men depicted with Luk's body was her mother. referring to.
“It didn't mean too much to me – there were so many bad people doing these terrible things, and there was one less person,” Ms. Look said.
She added: “You're happy that this person can't hurt no one gets hurt, but it doesn't really matter because it's a whole group of people.”
“It's not your typical murder story where you find the killer and they kill him – they did it as a group, so for me It doesn't really matter.”
Shani Luk “loved music, dancing and life,” her mother said Photo: Instagram/shanukkk
Within weeks, the Luk family The tattooist, identified by her distinctive body art and dreadlocks, was led to believe that she was alive but in a hospital in the Gaza Strip.
But Israeli officials later reported that she had died in a Hamas attack after how a fragment of her skull was found and identified.
“A happy, cheerful person”
“She was a very happy and cheerful person,” her mother said. in an interview with Rabbi Shmuley Botiac broadcast on Facebook.
“She loved music, dancing and life, and she really enjoyed it until the last moment.”
Ms. Luk also called on Israel reach an agreement with Hamas under which some 240 hostages held by the group in the Gaza Strip would be released in exchange for the release of 4,450 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.
“Give them all the prisoners”
“In my view, keeping these hostages alive is more important than keeping these prisoners here,” she said. “Give them all the prisoners if they can save at least some of our lives.”
Relatives of prisoners held by the group have asked the Israeli government to agree to a so-called “all for all” exchange.< /p>
Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, has been criticized by some families for not doing more to secure the release of the hostages as the Israeli military moves deep into the Gaza Strip with orders to destroy Hamas.< /p >
Hamas said on Monday it was willing to release up to 70 women and children hostages in exchange for a five-day truce and the release of 275 Palestinian women and children held in Israeli prisons.
>Mr. Netanyahu before has so far rejected any talk of a ceasefire, saying he would only be willing to suspend hostilities if all the hostages were released.
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