The Israeli authorities announced on Monday that the German-Israeli woman who was detained by Hamas at a music festival on October 7 had passed away. Israeli President Isaac Herzog told Germany’s Bild newspaper,

“I regret to inform you that we have now received news that Shani Nicole Locke has been confirmed to have been murdered and has died.”

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“What we saw on the Gaza-Israel border was not just massacre. We saw a slaughterhouse.” Luke, 22, is among dozens of people arrested by Hamas in deadly attacks on Israeli troops and civilian communities One, Israeli officials said the attack killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians.

There were reports at the time that Luque was traveling through Gaza with Hamas. This video contains graphic content. Hamas has taken more than 100 Israelis hostage, many of them civilians, and has threatened to execute an Israeli every time Israel launches airstrikes in Gaza without warning civilians. Andrew Chang explains what we know about the hostages and how Israel must calculate measures to ensure their return.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Hamas must be held accountable. The government has been a strong supporter of Israel’s retaliatory offensive in Gaza.

“This news is terrible for me,” Scholz said during an official visit to Nigeria. “This shows all the brutality behind Hamas.”

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Hamas has yet to comment on Luke’s fate. The circumstances of her death are unclear. The German government on Monday confirmed the death of a German citizen but gave no further details.

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A family source told Reuters the body parts found matched Luke’s DNA. Her family initially thought she was still alive, but she was injured when she was abducted from the music festival. But German broadcaster RTL/ntv said she now believed she was killed on the same day, possibly shot in the head. “At least she didn’t suffer,” her mother Ricarda Luque told RTL/ntv.