The Israeli Zaka rescue service have said that a piece of cranial bone they discovered is that of 23-year-old German-Israeli woman Shani Louk according to the results of DNA analysis.

Louk, who was a tattoo artist, was reported missing after Hamas militants stormed a desert music festival she was attending in Israel on the 7th of October last.

Multiple reports claim that a video depicting the body of a woman being paraded on the back of a truck by Hamas militants who shouted ‘Allah Akbar’ was that of the young woman with her distinctive leg tattoos and dreadlock hair being used to identify her. 

The Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed the young woman’s death saying, “We are devastated to share that the death of 23-year-old German-Israeli Shani Luk was confirmed.”

“Shani who was kidnapped from a music festival and tortured and paraded around Gaza by Hamas terrorists, experienced unfathomable horrors.” it said. 

According to communications sent to Louk’s family Zaka said that Shani could not have survived the injury which would have caused the piece of bone from the base of the skull to become separated from her body.  

Israeli President Isaac Herzog told BILD that Shani had been ‘beheaded’ describing her killers as ‘barbaric sadistic animals’.

Israel's president @Isaac_Herzog in our interview: „Only now we got the note that Shani Louk has been confirmed as murdered and dead. They found her skull which means these barbaric sadistic animals simply chopped off her head.“ pic.twitter.com/BKttGyS0TU

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Shani’s sister Adi Louk made an Instagram post yesterday saying that her sister had been killed in a “massacre at Re’im” referencing the music festival where 270 people died after it was stormed by Hamas militants.

Irish-Israeli woman Kim Damti who was also in attendance at the festival and had been reported missing after Hamas attacked was confirmed to be among the dead on the 11th of October last.  

As Gript previously reported, The 22-year-old, whose mother is from Portlaoise, had been unaccounted for, having attended the outdoor Supernova music festival in Southern Israel. 

Her mother Jennifer last spoke to her daughter in a phone call on Saturday morning as people fled from the festival. Her daughter asked, “Mummy, what should I do?” as she tried to flee to a place of shelter.

“They just shot everywhere. They slaughtered them like ducks. This behaviour is barbaric. I didn’t bring my children up to hate anybody. I’m asking the world to condemn this,” her mother said in an emotional news interview with ABC.