Weeks after Hamas militants paraded her nearly naked body, young Israeli festivalgoer Shani Louk is confirmed dead. Many families still await news of their loved ones.
By Laura King, Los Angeles TimesIn Tel Aviv, family, friends and community members call for the release of loved ones who are among more than 200 hostages captured by Hamas.
The festival attack, horrifying as it was for Israelis, was swiftly subsumed by a crush of fast-moving events: the, the ongoing crisis over the militants’ seizure of more than 230 hostages, and Israel’s intense round-the-clock bombing of wide swaths of the Gaza Strip, a sealed-off territory inhabited by more than 2 million Palestinians.
Many sought safety in nearby small communities, but their pursuers followed, tossing grenades into public bomb shelters where some huddled, survivors recounted. The parents of 23-year-old California-born Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who spoke to the Los Angeles Times five days after the attack, said his first text to them that morning said, “I love you.” The second one said, “I’m sorry.”
The dead and abducted ranged in age from infants to the very elderly, and included scores of children. This image from video provided by South First Responders shows charred and damaged cars along a desert road after an attack by Hamas militants at the Tribe of Nova Trance music festival near Kibbutz Re'im in southern Israel on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023.
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