Israeli President Isaac Herzog confirmed this Monday the death of a young German woman kidnapped in Israeli territory by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Saturday, October 7, and revealed that the victim, who was seen in a video badly injured on board of a truck, "they cut off his head." "We have received news that it has been confirmed that Shani Nicole Louk has been murdered. Her skull has been found," President Herzog said today in an interview with the German media Bild. "That means that these barbaric and sadistic animals simply cut off his head while attacking, torturing and killing Israelis. It is a great tragedy and I express my deepest condolences to his family," added the Israeli president. The mother of the young German woman, with dual Israeli nationality, had previously reported that her daughter was dead, citing military sources. According to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, “the death of 23-year-old German-Israeli Shani Louk was confirmed. Shani, who was kidnapped at a music festival, tortured and paraded through Gaza by Hamas terrorists, experienced unfathomable horrors." "Unfortunately, yesterday we received the news that my daughter is no longer alive," said the young woman's mother, Ricarda Louk, in an interview with the German television channels RTL and NTV, as reported by the Sputnik news agency.