The Government confirms the death of Maya Villalobo, the Sevillian enlisted in the Israeli Army who disappeared after the Hamas attack

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed the death of the Spanish-Israeli citizen Maya Villalobo Sinvany, the 19-year-old girl who was inside the Nahal Oz military base at the time the Hamas terrorist group assaulted and occupied it.

The fighters managed to access the compound, located a few kilometers from the Gaza Strip, with at least six Namer heavy armored vehicles and it was known that six people had been kidnapped.. Until now, Maya was considered missing.

It was on Sunday when Eduardo Villalobo, a professor at the University of Seville and Maya's father, asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israeli Embassy in Madrid for help after several failed attempts to contact his daughter.

The girl's parents declared that they had not heard anything about her since 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, when the Islamist raid took place; and declared in a statement that they were preparing “to help her in every possible way,” while calling for “caution” and “respect.”

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, is “dismayed” by the news of the death and expresses his “sincere condolences” to his family and friends. “The Government of Spain reiterates its strongest condemnation of Hamas' attacks on Israel,” he stated, emphasizing that “nothing justifies a terrorist attack.”

The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has also regretted “the murder of Maya Villalobo at the hands of Hamas”, the name of the entire party: “I want to accompany her family and friends in their pain.. “Terrorism knows no limits, it only wants victims.”

In addition to her, after the attack, Iván Illarramendi Saizar, 46, a native of the Basque town of Zarautz (north), where he stopped being registered in 1986, and who lives in Israel with his wife in a kibbutz, is also missing after the attack. two kilometers from the Gaza Strip.