Shani Louk will be buried, today, on her mother Ricarda’s birthday. Israel Defense Forces recovered her body from Gaza on Friday, where she’s been held since Hamas abducted her from the Nova music festival, on October 7.

Tattoos have narrated Shani’s story. A video of Hamas carrying Shani’s distorted, half-naked body around Gaza in the back of a pickup truck was one of the first images of the war to go viral. Her parents identified Shani’s body seven months ago, when they recognized her leg tattoos in that awful video. They again had to identify her on Friday, when the IDF recovered hostage bodies in Gaza. Her father, this time, recognized Shani’s hand tattoos.

“I think she’d been in one of the tunnels which was very, very cold . . . that’s why the body is complete and beautiful and the skin is still the same color, you still see the tattoos, it’s amazing,” her father Nissim said.

There are more than 100 hostages and more than 30 hostage bodies still in Gaza. Think of all the birthdays, anniversaries, and milestones that the hostages, and Israeli families, have missed — and of Ricarda, whose birthday wish was to finally lay her daughter to rest.