German woman's body paraded naked, spat on by Hamas fighters in Israel
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Disturbing visuals of Hamas parading a naked and battered body of a woman on the streets of Israel have emerged. Another woman confirmed that it was her sister, a German citizen, seen in the video.

Disturbing visuals of Hamas parading a naked and battered body of a woman on the streets of Israel have emerged. Another woman confirmed that it was her sister, a German citizen, seen in the video.

As the Israel-Gaza conflict rages, disturbing visuals of fighters of the Palestinian armed group Hamas parading a naked and battered body of a woman through the streets of Israel in the back of a pickup truck have emerged.

According to videos that surfaced on social media, a screaming crowd surrounds the Hamas’ vehicle, echoing their cries and spitting on the woman’s body.

Hamas initially claimed that the body belonged to a female Israeli soldier, according to news.com.au. However, Adi Louk confirmed on X that the woman seen in the video was her sister, Shani Louk, a German citizen and a tattoo artist, reported the New York Post.

Shani Louk’s mother, in a video message posted by Visegrad 24 on X, confirmed her daughter’s identity and appealed to people for more information regarding her whereabouts.

  • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    So this attack was not just in one place. From what I’ve gathered it seems to have been

    1. mass indiscriminate missile shelling to overwhelm the automated missile defense systems of the iron dome. I’m not aware of Hamas having the capability for any more precise missiles than this
    2. launching dozens of paragliders over the israeli wall that surrounds Gaza using giant fans and while the missiles are flying, all along the wall, and the attackers taking hostages wherever they landed. I’m not sure but I don’t think they actually had much control over where they landed.

    These attacks took place in many locations and they did actually attack and briefly take over several military outposts and checkpoints. It seems one of the primary goals was to take as many hostages as possible, and they have hidden these hostages throughout Gaza, sending the message that if Israel retaliates with bombs (which they have), they could be killing their own citizens. Hamas has also had success in the past with much smaller scale hostage taking, trading in one instance a single Israeli POW for around 1000 Palestinian POWs.

    So what is the goal? Is this just an expression of pent up anger? Because it seems a poor strategy to me.

    This is also the case. Israel is a formidable enemy with all of the power in the conflict, and the backing of multiple other world powers. Hamas has no hope of “winning” the conflict on their own. This is clearly also driven by desperation and hopelessness

    • teuniac_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I just can’t fathom how it wouldn’t also have helped Hamas’ cause by forbidding any form of sexual violence.

      It would have helped their cause if it had been possible to draw comparisons between them and Israel: both kill lots of civilians. But the reports of rape and other sexual violence just makes it impossible to feel anything but disgust.