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A video showed Shani Louk's naked body being paraded through Gaza on the back of a Hamas truck.
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Her family told Der Spiegel that Louk's bank said her credit card had been used in Gaza.
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More than 600 Israelis have died and over 100 have been captured by Hamas, Israel says.
Shani Louk, the young woman whose naked body was seen in the back of a pick-up truck driven by Hamas fighters through Gaza, may have also been robbed, a report suggests.
The parents have not heard from their daughter since a phone call early on the morning of October 7, just after Hamas launched the first rockets into Israeli territory.
But in an interview with German news outlet Der Spiegel, the family said they had received information from her bank that the tattoo artist's credit card had been used in Gaza.
Louk's mother, Ricarda Louk, still holds out hope that her daughter might still be alive, saying in a video posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, that she saw her daughter "unconscious in a car with Palestinians."
"I just don't want to admit it yet," she told Der Spiegel.
I think it's a very nuanced complex set of issues that no one on social media has a real grasp on… we are really only being shown so much from both sides… we can be against Hamas and Israel but be pro civilian… it's a nuanced, challenging issue, that takes a lot of intellect and understanding that there is no good guy, bad guy in this. Both governments suck here, not the victims dying at their hands.
It shouldn't be all that hard to simply denounce a terrorist group that rapes and murders.
But many people (who claim to be on the left) are reacting to this this in the exact same way that the alt-right reacts to a mass shooting. "It's the media's fault! It's complicated, you just don't understand!" Everything except denouncing the act and those behind it.
It seems people are struggling to accept they were supporting some very horrible people and were wrong to do so.