Family and friends of 19-year-old Maya Villalobo Sinvany, killed in the Hamas attack on Israel, gathered this Friday to honor her memory and express their condolences, with a call for a five-minute silence made by the Seville City Council. . Uncle of the murdered young woman Nahal Oz baseHe regretted serving there when he was attacked last Saturday while doing his military service near the Gaza border. “This is a great lack of awareness” His destiny, he said, was “to be on the front lines of the war.” “He was a baby,” the victim’s uncle, José María Villalobo, lamented, visibly moved. “He was doing his military service and they sent him to the front in Gaza, I don’t know what he did there,” he said.
Maya Villalobo, relatives say took leave and planned to land in Seville this Friday to celebrate his father’s birthdayprofessor at the University of Seville Eduardo Villalobo. What was supposed to happen? A birthday celebration turned into a tragic funeral in Israel. The place where her father went to say goodbye to his daughter, who was killed in a Hamas terrorist attack.
The victim, who had dual Spanish and Israeli citizenship, was the daughter of an Israeli researcher and a Microbiology professor from Seville who did his doctorate in Israel. Although he lived in that country with his mother, he spent long periods in Spain, especially in Seville and on the coast of Huelva and Cádiz, where he had the opportunity to spend summers with his family. Friends and family came visibly broken with pain To the call made at the door of the Seville city hall, where Mayor José Luis Sanz (PP) and all opposition representatives expressed their support and condolences. Except for the left wing combination of Podemos and IU, Council members did not attend the meeting.
Spokesperson of Con Podemos-IU, Susana HornilloHe expressed his condolences for the “murder” but expressed regret that the call for a minute’s silence in the Seville City Council “ignored the pain and suffering suffered by the Palestinian people for decades due to the occupation of an oppressive regime and the state of apartheid.” A government like Israel’s.”
Funeral in Israel
The family, who has always wanted their privacy to be protected and their pain to be respected, has made various statements through the Seville Press Association in recent days. On the same Thursday, they thanked once again for the “expressions of love” they received and announced that they would hold a “special meeting” in honor of the murdered young woman “later”. Maya Villalobo’s funeral will be held “within the next few days” in Israel, where she lives with her mother. Maya’s father went to her mother and family to attend the ceremony.
Relatives also expressed the support they received from cyber security company Quantika14 during the painful days of the search; He disappeared on Saturday and the worst possible outcome was confirmed last Wednesday. They also thanked the “sensitivity” with which they were assured that they were treated by the hospital. Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, Spanish ambassador to Israel and Interior Ministry consul and psychologist. In the lines where they also touched upon the support received by the Press Association to manage communications in these tragic moments, he added, “We would like to thank the solidarity of the University of Seville and other institutions that conveyed their condolences to us.”
“And above all, We want to thank Maya for every day we were able to share with her. We cannot find words to describe everything he has given us. “We will dedicate the next few days to intensely joining her in gratitude, because Maya will always live in the hearts of her parents, in the hearts of all of us,” concluded the Spanish family, who had previously described her as “a “cheerful” young woman” and “with an enormous heart.” loving” and “in love with Spain”.