The National Court is already investigating the attack against three people, two of them of Spanish nationality and the wife of one of them, after the attacks perpetrated last weekend in the State of Israel and in the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank.. Specifically, Judge María Tardón has agreed to accept the jurisdiction to begin the investigations.
The judge indicates in her order in which she accepts jurisdiction that on October 9, a document prepared by the Head of the Information Service of Madrid was presented, giving an account of the terrorist actions that occurred on October 7 and 8, in which she reported of the disappearance of two Spaniards in a conflict zone, the Basque Iván Illaramendi and his wife, of Chilean origin, and the young Maya Villalobo, whose death was confirmed this Wednesday, and who was doing military service in the area.
The document fell by distribution to the Central Court of Instruction 3 which, once a report had been requested from the Public Prosecutor's Office, assumed jurisdiction to fit the facts into the criminal types of articles 571 et seq. of the Penal Code as it was an alleged crime of terrorism.. Furthermore, it is up to the Spanish jurisdiction to investigate these events as there are victims with Spanish nationality, in accordance with article 23.4 of the Organic Law of the Judiciary..
The Spaniards were reported missing after the Hamas ground and air attack this weekend in Israel. This is a citizen of Zarautz who lives in the Kissufim kibbutz and the young Villalobo, a regular resident of Seville, whose death was confirmed this morning. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already been informed of this situation and together with the embassy is taking steps to try to find the whereabouts of those who still remain missing..
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed the death of the young Spanish-Israeli Maya Villalobo, 19 years old.. With dual Spanish and Israeli nationality, he was in Israel because he had to do his military service. He was at the Nahal Oz base, also near the border with the Gaza Strip and one of those that were attacked by Hamas militants. Albares already announced on Monday that these Spaniards had “suffered the Gaza attack on Israel”, although he did not detail their condition.