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The mother of a woman whose body was paraded through the streets by Hamas has pleaded for help finding her daughter.

A video showing German tattoo artist Shani Louk on the back of a pickup truck circulated on social media after the Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.

Louk had been attending an outdoor "Festival for Peace" party near Kibbutz Urim when the area was targeted. First, rockets were launched, then gunmen and appeared and shot into the crowd, CNN reported. Party attendees told the outlet people immediately started to flee, passing dead bodies on the ground as they tried to escape the massacre.

The attack and resulting conflict has left hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians dead, with Israel's prime minister declaring war.

A video of a young woman with dreadlocks on the back of a pickup truck and surrounded by Hamas soldiers started circulating on social media shortly after the attack. In it, she appears stripped to her underwear, and her legs are bent at unnatural angles, while one soldier grabs her hair. People are also seen spitting on her body.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe Palestinians could try living in Jordan? Oh, Black September and all that happened.

Or maybe Lebanon would work? Oh, that's how we got Hezbollah, who has basically taken over Lebanon.

Maybe Egypt will open their doors to the Palestinians again? But then again, Rafah border crossing is almost always closed, because Egypt's de facto relationship with the Palestinians could be described as "we like you, but mostly because we hate Israel more".

I sympathize enormously with every normal Palestinian, but Mandatory Palestine will never be a thing again. The so-called State of Israel will continue to exist. It has been too long, and the only humanitarian hope for everyone involved is for Hamas and all related groups to accept defeat. But I don't see that happening, because the conflict isn't just over historical lands and freedom, but to eradicate all Zionists.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

the only humanitarian hope for everyone involved is for Hamas and all related groups to accept defeat.

so be subjugated or die? That seems barbaric, not humanitarian.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"subjugated"? Don't be inane now. What's your solution, other than Hamas ceasing their terrorist attacks?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The solution would be to end the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, and granting all Palestinians within those territories full citizenship, voting rights, and economic reparations for the hardship they suffered at the hands of the Israeli state.

Then you wouldn't have the desperate poverty and crowded ghettos that make people desperate enough to join Hamas to begin with.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

subjugated

Yes subjegated. Look up the definition. Don't be inane now.