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Many women today choose to mark themselves with henna instead, a natural dye that fades away over the course of a week or two. Bedouin

The 23-year-old is a dual German-Israeli citizen, according to reports. Pictures published on her social media accounts show her in Germany and describing Israel as “home”.

Handala's age – ten years old – represents Naji al-Ali's age in 1948 when he was forced to leave Palestine and would not grow up until he could return to his homeland: [6] Al-Ali wrote that: Sadeghi, Shirin (18 November 2009). "QODS DAY: Protesters Transform Jerusalem Day Into Iran Day". HuffPost. The captives are known to include soldiers and civilians, including women, children and older adults — mostly Israelis but also some people of other nationalities. The Israeli military said only that the number of captives is “significant.” Initially, Louk’s mother Ricarda said she believed her daughter was alive and being held in a hospital in Gaza, but informed German television on Sunday that her daughter was no longer alive. Easter has passed and the pilgrims who come to the Holy Land - Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and everything in between - have gone home.

Louk was at the Supernova music festival near Re’im on 7 October when Hamas terrorists launched their assault.Tattooing among Christians became central to identifying themselves with the suffering of Jesus Christ The tattoo means everything to me,” 45-year-old Zahar Mafouth, an Iraqi-British Catholic, tells Middle East Eye in the dark halls of the monastery. “It reminds me every day to be a good person.”

Tattoos are very common in this day and age and have even become mainstream; most actors and actresses have at least one tattoo, there are multiple TV series based around tattoos and tattoo culture, and even schools for tattooing have opened in recent years. Though body art has become so commonplace, many people still frown down upon it and, especially in the South, have religious reasons for doing so. Despite Leviticus 19:28, tattoos aren’t always seen in a negative light by Christians, and are sometimes a necessity.Despite this deep-rooted history, the practice is dying out due to a mixture of increasing religiosity and the spread of western fashions. During the Holy Week Ayash tattoos up to a hundred pilgrims per day, who are mainly Christians coming from the Middle East [AFP] In a video published online, Ricarda said her daughter, "a German citizen, was kidnapped with a group of tourists in southern Israel by Palestinian Hamas." This morning my daughter, Shani Nicole Louk, a German citizen, was kidnapped with a group of tourists in southern Israel by Palestinian Hamas. Karima Zurub, a Palestinian mother from Rafah, said: “Henna night is a tradition we inherited a long ago, and we keep it. During the night before the wedding, we clap, sing, press henna in the groom’s hand and paint beautiful patterns for the bride.”

Ayashdraws a tattoo depicting a crucified Jesus Christ on the arm of a Coptic Egyptian pilgrim [AFP] Handala ( Arabic: حنظلة, romanized: Ḥanẓala), also Handhala, Hanzala or Hanthala, is a prominent national symbol and personification of the Palestinian people. [1] [2] A video published by Bild, Germany’s largest newspaper, appeared to show Ms Louk’s mother, Ricarda, confirming her daughter’s kidnap. The practice has been sustained in the region since medieval times when primarily European Christians would mark their bodies with tattoos as a souvenir of their journey to the Holy Land and a physical testament to their faith. A photo hanging up at Wassim's tattoo shop showing his grandfather Yacoub tattooing a young woman during British Mandate Palestine (Jaclynn Ashly/MEE)

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Olin, Margaret (2019). "How Long Will Handala Wait? A Ten-Year-Old Barefoot Refugee Child on Palestinian Walls". Timescapes of Waiting. pp.176–197. doi: 10.1163/9789004407121_012. ISBN 978-90-04-40712-1. S2CID 203233320. Iraqi Christian pilgrims from the UK wait to be tattooed in the monastery's basement (Jaclynn Ashly/MEE)