The judge of the María Tardón National Court has asked the Israeli authorities to send all the information they have collected about the authorship and claim of the attack carried out by Hamas on October 7, within the framework of the investigation into the murder of two Spaniards, the young Spanish-Israeli Maya Villalobo Sinvany and the Basque citizen Ivan Illarramendi in said attack.

The judge assumes that perhaps it could “turn out clarification unfeasible of the facts and determine his specific responsibility”, although he has decided to exhaust “all investigation possibilities”. He thus rejects the archive request made by the Prosecutor’s Office and agrees, at the request of several associations of victims of terrorism, to carry out new investigative procedures and, specifically, to request legal assistance to the Israeli authorities to provide all the information they have about the attack.

He does it, as he explains in his car, because the Right to information It is one of the most basic of the victim and that must lead to exhausting all possibilities, collecting as much data as can be provided by the competent Israeli judicial authorities. All this despite the fact that Tardón recognizes that, as the prosecutor maintains, the police reports frame what happened in a context of information uncertainty typical of the type of violent actions and war scenarios, and without prejudice to the fact that finally it has to be agree file if a positive result is not obtained regarding the circumstances in which the deaths of the Spanish citizens occurred, as well as their possible responsibility.

When requesting the file, the Prosecutor’s Office argued that the Hamas authorship is clear and that the deaths cannot be determined or attributed to a specific person. Judge María Tardón opened the case on October 11 after receiving a police report that reported the disappearance of the two Spanish citizens and the wife of one of them after the terrorist actions which occurred on October 7 and 8.

Illarramendi, a native of the Guipuzcoan town of Zarautz, had been living for a few years with his Chilean wife in a kibbutz located two kilometers from the Gaza Strip, which was assaulted last October 7. He and his wife were murdered in Kibbutz Kissufim, a fact that became known a month after the assault and confirmed that they had not been kidnapped as it had been shuffled.

The other missing Spanish girl was Maya Villalobo Sinvanya 19-year-old Sevillian with dual nationality, who at the time of the assault was at the Nahal Oz base, also near the border with Gaza, doing the military service. Five days after his disappearance, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed his death.