The most tragic outcome of the disappearance of Maya Villalobo, one of the two Spaniards lost in Israel after the Hamas attack. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed her death yesterday through a statement expressing "its deepest sadness" to the family and people close to the girl.
Villalobo, 19 years old and of Spanish and Israeli nationality, was doing his military service at the Nahal Oz base, next to the border with Gaza. Her father appealed for help via social media to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday after being unable to locate his daughter. After that, the ministry addressed the family, with whom it has been in contact. On Monday, Minister José Manuel Albares confirmed that two Spaniards had been "affected" by the Hamas attack: Villalobo and Iván Illarramendi Saizar, 46 years old.
The family of the dead young woman lives in Seville. His father is a professor of Biology at the University of Seville and his mother is an Israeli researcher. She moved to Israel to do military service, assigned to the 414th battalion: she documented her time in the military on her social media profiles.
In a statement, the Government has once again reiterated "its strongest condemnation" of the terrorist attack by Hamas in Israel and has expressed "its deepest sadness and all its condolences" to the people close to them.
The one about whom no information has been released "for security reasons" is Illarramendi, a native of Zarautz. He lives with his Israeli wife in a kibbutz, two kilometers from the strip. The missing person alerted his relatives of the attack, but when the police arrived at the house, no one was there. They found no sign of a struggle, so the main suspect is kidnapping.
The judge of the National Court María Tardón has agreed to accept the competence to investigate the disappearance of the girl, now found dead, and the marriage. The magistrate indicates in her interlocutory hearing that on October 9 a letter prepared by the Directorate of the Madrid Information Service was presented in which it gave an account of the terrorist actions that took place on October 7 and 8, and 'reported the disappearance of three citizens in a conflict zone, a couple and a young woman who served in the Israeli forces because she held Spanish and Israeli nationality. The letter went to the central court of inquiry number 3, which, once the report was requested from the public prosecutor's office in favor of an investigation, assumes jurisdiction because it frames the facts as terrorism. In addition, it is up to the Spanish jurisdiction to investigate the facts because there are victims with Spanish nationality, and in the third case, the wife of one of them, because she is a first-degree relative.
