The Spanish citizen Iván Illarramendi and his wife, the Chilean Loren Garcovich, They were burned alive together at his home on a kibbutz near Gaza in the Hamas attack On October 7, a spokesperson for the Israeli Foreign Ministry informed EFE, who specified that The couple’s remains will be buried in Israel and Spain.
When asked by EFE about the delay in identifying their remains, the spokesperson explained that they consist only of ashes and few parts of their bodies, which cannot be separated.
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The spokesperson highlighted that the dissemination of this information was previously agreed upon with the families of the victims and added that the identification of his remains concluded this Tuesday after a complicated process.
This procedure was carried out at the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine, in Tel Aviv, one of the two forensic centers where the remains of people murdered during the stroke whose bodies They were unrecognizable after being burned or mutilated.
The confirmation this Wednesday that Illarramendi, 46, and Garcovich, 47, died on October 7 at their residence in Kibbutz Kissufim corrected the version that the couple was among the more than 240 hostages who were kidnapped and taken to Gaza during the Hamas attackin which more than 1,400 people died and More than five thousand were injured.
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Illarramendi’s death brings to two the number of Spaniards who died due to the attack by the Islamist group Hamas.
The other victim is the Spanish-Israeli citizen Maya Villalobo Sinvany, 19, who was at the Nahal Oz base, near the Gaza border, doing military service. Her death was confirmed by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on October 11.
For his part, the Israeli ambassador to Chile announced last month that At least four people of Chilean origin died in the Hamas attack.
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The Israel Police confirmed today that 843 civilians killed in the October 7 attacks have already been identifiedwhile it is estimated that the remains of more than a hundred victims They are still pending examination.