The Spanish Iván Illarramendi and his wife, the Chilean Loren Garcovich, were murdered by Hamas in the attack on October 7 in which more than 1,400 people died.. Their bodies were identified this Tuesday night after being located in their home in the Kissufin kibbutz, where they were burned, as confirmed by Israeli diplomatic sources to 20 minutes.. The condition of the bodies is what has caused it to take a month to identify them.

The couple's remains were identified at the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv, one of the two forensic centers where the remains of people killed during the attack whose bodies were left unrecognizable have been analyzed for several weeks.

His death is added to that of Maya Villalobo, who died the same day as the Hamas attack on the festival.. The young woman was performing military service in the Israeli Army, as she had dual nationality, and died on October 11 at the military post where she was, as confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Illarramendi was 46 years old and was a native of the Guipuzcoan town of Zarautz (Basque Country), while Loren, his wife, born in Chile, had Israeli roots, as confirmed by Gabriel Colodro, president of the Chilean Community in Israel.