A GERMAN woman who had her naked body paraded around by Hamas terrorists in a horrifying display of war was a pacifist and peace activist.<\/p>\n

Shani Louk, 30, has not been accounted for since the horrifying footage of her body being spat on by militants sparked outrage around the globe.<\/p>\n

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The German-Israeli citizen was seized from a peace music festival near Gaza by armed militants during the\u00a0Saturday morning attack\u00a0which sparked a declaration of war from\u00a0Israel.<\/p>\n

And heartbreaking video of her dancing joyfully a few months before she went missing was released today.<\/p>\n

Her family said that the tattoo artist loved to dance and travel.<\/p>\n

Now her aunt has revealed Shani was a staunch advocate for peace and objected to military service in Israel.<\/p>\n

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National military service is mandatory for all Israeli citizen over the age of 18, for a minimum of 32 months for men and 24 months for women.<\/p>\n

Shani had refused to partake in the mandatory service and reportedly held firmly anti-war stances.<\/p>\n

She had been attending the peace music festival in south Israel when Hamas launched their campaign of terror into Israel.<\/p>\n

The festival was one of the first sites attacked when the Palestinian militant group Hamas stormed across the border on Saturday with paragliders and armed soldiers.<\/p>\n

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A witness, Gili Yoskovich, described people "dying all around" as she stayed silent in a desperate attempt to escape the terror group's hail of bullets.<\/p>\n

Shani's mother, Ricarda Louk, saw the harrowing footage of her daughter in the back of a Hamas truck but has yet to hear more from her.<\/p>\n

Ricarda told\u00a0CNN: "The video looks very bad but I still have hope. I hope she's still alive somewhere.<\/p>\n

"We don't have anything else to hope for. We're trying to believe."<\/p>\n

When violence erupted in Israel on Saturday, Ricarda had desperately tried to make sure her daughter was safe.<\/p>\n

She said: "I started calling her to see where she is, if she was near a secure location, and she said she was in a festival in the south and was panicking a little bit."<\/p>\n

Ricarda's worries were increased after seeing videos of armed militants shooting anyone trying to reach their vehicles – which Shani told her mum she was doing.<\/p>\n

No updates have been given on Shani's whereabouts, but cousin Tom Weintraub Louk said the family hasn't given up.<\/p>\n

He spoke to\u00a0The Washington Post\u00a0about his cousin: "We have some kind of hope. Hamas is responsible for her and the others.<\/p>\n

"We recognised her by the tattoos<\/span>, and she has long dreadlocks."<\/p>\n

Hundreds of other attendees of the music festival remain missing, with many like Shani thought to have been kidnapped and taken into Gaza.<\/p>\n

It comes as Israel has ordered a total blockade on bomb-blitzed Gaza after Hamas terrorists unleashed a bloodbath dubbed "Israel\u2019s 9\/11".<\/p>\n

More than 1,200 people in\u00a0Israel\u00a0and Gaza have been killed since the Palestinian militant group stormed across the border on Saturday.<\/p>\n

A deadly concoction of over 600 warplanes and 300 rocket launchers is being used to blitz the densely-populated Gaza Strip as Israel begins their "complete siege".<\/p>\n

In the last 20 hours, Israeli officials have said they have dropped 2,000 munitions and 1,000 ton bombs on over 10,000 Hamas targets.<\/p>\n

Now, Israel is planning to launch a coordinated ground offensive in the "next 48 hours", US officials reported.<\/p>\n

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has\u00a0vowed to reduce Gaza to \u201crubble\u201d\u00a0as he blitzes Hamas strongholds in revenge for Saturday's surprise attack.<\/p>\n

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