A mom is asking for help finding her daughter, who she thinks was taken away by Palestinian fighters at a festival close to the Gaza Strip.
Shani Louk, a tourist from Germany, was at a peace festival when Hamas fighters suddenly attacked the area.
Her mom said she watched a video of Shani being “asleep in a car” after she was taken away.
Hamas has taken some Israeli people as hostages, including civilians and soldiers, according to the Israeli military.
However, the BBC has not confirmed if Shani was the person held captive in the car.
Shani’s mother showed a picture of her daughter on her phone and said in a video that Shani was taken by Palestinian Hamas along with a group of tourists in southern Israel.
She told us that they sent us a video showing our daughter unconscious in a car with Palestinians, driving around the Gaza Strip.
Can you please send us any assistance or information. Thank you a lot.
More individuals at the festival have gone missing, including a British citizen named Jake Marlowe. However, the Israeli embassy in the UK told the BBC that they are uncertain if Jake Marlowe has been kidnapped.
His mother said to Jewish News that he was working as a security worker at a festival in Kibbutz Re’im, a community in the city of Ofakim, which is close to Gaza.
Videos on social media showed an Israeli woman named Noa Argamani being taken by force and held on a motorcycle by two men.
Gili Yoskovich, who was also there, said to the BBC that she hid under a tree in a field while some people with guns were going around shooting anyone they could see.
Fighting is still happening after Israel was unexpectedly attacked by Hamas this weekend.
The Palestinian fighters fired many rockets at Israel and attacked their fighters on Saturday morning. This caused many people to die and get injured.
According to the health ministry in Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas, many people have died as a result of Israeli air strikes.