Eduardo Villalobo, the father of the 19-year-old Spanish girl Maya Villalobo, who died in the Hamas attacks on Israel, participated this Wednesday in a tribute to his daughter at the University of Seville, where he is a professor. In his message, he stressed that he shares the pain "of all the families who are suffering, wherever they are from."
The Faculty of Biology called for five minutes of silence in memory of Maya, who had dual Spanish and Israeli nationality and was doing military service in a post near Gaza that was attacked by Hamas on October 7.
At the event, Eduardo Villalobo, professor of Microbiology, read a manifesto in which he said that his daughter continues to "transmit joy" and that the day she was buried someone told him that "he had seen a supernova and Maya will continue to be a star." that shines, the most beautiful in the sky".
Villalobo wanted to share the pain "with all the families that are suffering, wherever they are from, on this side or the other, because humanity has no sides. Maya was a kind person and that is how she would have expressed it," he said, in words collected by EFE. "Maya never said a bad word about anyone. We are a family that always remembers who she suffers. Regardless of where she comes from," said Villalobo, as reported by Diario de Sevilla. "Humanity has no sides. Neither good nor bad. All equal in the face of pain," he added.
The professor from the University of Seville recalled his experiences with his daughter in Seville and even said that they had yet to "go to a Betis match." Maya's uncle revealed last week that her niece was planning to celebrate her father's birthday in Seville and for this she had requested leave from the Army.
