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.

  • boyi@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    92·
    1 year ago

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

    I am trying to think of the answer objectively. Here is what I can think of the possibility would be:

    I think their main goal is to abduct as many Israeli as possible and bring them to Gaza. Why?

    1. So they can negotiate on prisoner exchange. You can already come across news of negotiate being held in Qatar as of now.
    2. To use those captured Israelis as human shields. The Israeli is very protective of their citizens and will go to great length to make sure that they’stay safe and alive. You can refer to many instances in the past where the Israeli government have conducted many rescues of Israeli hostages. This is why, in the long run, an alive Israeli is worth lots more than them being dead. To add to this, if Hamas use their own women or children as human shields, it won’t work as the Israeli won’t care and will blow them anyway. So having Israeli civilians with them will mitigate the act of Israeli bombing Gaza indisminately. They are already statement by Netanyahu that the war will be long because of hostage situation.
    3. To use them as safety collateral in other ways that I can’t think of. Hamas simply has no say. They have nothing of any value to nego with the Israeli gov whatsoever. So the only thing that can help them is by bringing the subject of hostages into the negotiation. That’s why they need as many hostage as possible. after some time they won’t get the chance once the Israeli military deployments are underway.

    When they attack the military camps, it seems that would just kill as many military personnel as they can, even those unarmed. Those not killed are bonus prizes for them - as good as having civilian hostages - but having civilians is much easier.

    So, specifically for the situation at the music festival: why did many civillians got killed if Hamas wanted them alive? I speculate it was due to crowd control gone wrong. There are security personnel with fire arms at the music festival, so there were some shooting going on between them. Or it could be that through the chaos they just decided to kill until they can manage the crowd. Or they were just evil and decide to exert revenge. There could be many other possibilities. Hamas have claimed that those civilian that were killed were actually military personnel, but that’s very unlikely.

    Anyway, I could be totally wrong. This is what I can thing of to get some senses of what going on.

    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.netEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s a good theory, but why were they shooting at civilian cars then?

      I think your theory may make more sense than most (explains the abductions) but it still mostly seems nonsensical.

      • drewfro66@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The actual reason, as said by Hamas’s own press releases, is that they do not consider settlers to be civilians. Israel is an occupation of their land, and all occupiers are legitimate targets.

      • boyi@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        but why were they shooting at civilian cars then

        Strategical when they were on the offence offense, they want to capture easy and high value targets.

        So the best place is at civilian homes - the least resistance. But those that on the run, like civilian in cars, is no longer easy target. So for those that are on the run, the attackers will default to another main goal - which is to instill fears to other Israeli civilians who will be watching the news that they are no longer safe and the gov are not capable of protecting them - by killing the non-easy targets, to set an example/precedence of terror.

      • boyi@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        42·
        1 year ago

        You can say that but that won’t really help because it has emotional element in it. It would be best if we can analyze their actions objectively, and to see how it impacts geopolitical events.

        This is not a premature attack. it has been planned for more than a year (based on the interrogation of those captured). [And I am still dumbfounded how the best intelligence agency in the world were not able to smell it]. The goals and objectives most likely have been set by the higher-level parties. So they most likely has certain guidelines on what to do on certain situation so that their overall goals can be achieved. To just kill indiscriminately like animals is very unlikely part of that.