“Shani Louk is alive.” This is the latest information that Ricarda Louk, the mother of the young woman seen in a video unconscious, half-naked, bloodied, trampled and spat on in the back of one of the vehicles used by Hamas, has received through unidentified “Palestinian sources”. in his raid on Israel.
The 22-year-old girl has been missing since the attack on the music festival (Supernova) in southern Israel. Her condition in a video that spread and shocked the world made people believe that she was lying dead and some media outlets even left her for dead. Not so, “Shani is alive, but she is in a critical situation,” her mother reported this Tuesday.
Shani is apparently admitted to a hospital in the Gaza Strip with a serious head injury. “Every minute is critical,” stressed her mother, who has appealed to the German Government to help her quickly. “This is really my desperate appeal to the whole country, to Germany, to help me bring my Shani back home, healthy.”
Shani has German and Israeli nationality, but her mother’s plea goes to the Government in Berlin. “We shouldn’t be arguing about jurisdictional issues now,” she says.
From Sulz am Neckar, in Israel, Shani Louk’s aunt has made the same desperate appeal. “The responsibility lies with the German government, which must send someone and free my niece from this horror,” Orly Louk explained, adding that the situation in Israel is not good. “Here we are not receiving any information, only from the videos.”
Shani’s family never lost hope. Hours after the girl’s degrading video appeared on social media, Ricarda Louk received an email alert about the use of the credit card her son was carrying. The issuing bank did not report charges, but warned of the use of that card on Sunday afternoon in a store in front of the “Indonesian Hospital”, the most important in Gaza.