Due to the fracture in her leg, Karin Journo had talked herself out of going to the Tribe of Nova music pageant and bought her ticket
ByJOHN LEICESTER Related Press
October 18, 2023, 2:47 PM
Karin Journo takes a selfie earlier than she went to the Tribe of Nova music pageant. Saturday’s assault on the open-air Tribe of Nova music pageant is believed to be the worst civilian bloodbath in Israeli historical past, with no less than 260 {dead} and a nonetheless undetermined quantity taken hostage. Dozens of Hamas militants who had blown by way of Israel’s closely fortified separation fence and crossed into the nation from Gaza opened hearth on about 3,500 younger Israelis who had come collectively for a joyous evening of digital music to rejoice the Jewish vacation of Sukkot. (Karin Journo by way of Meitav Journo by way of AP)
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PARIS — Due to the fracture in her proper leg, Karin Journo had talked herself out of going to the Tribe of Nova music pageant and bought her ticket. However every week earlier than Hamas militants turned the occasion right into a killing floor, she purchased one other.
The 24-year-old French-Israeli airport employee who liked to journey had realized {that a} bunch of her associates have been going to rejoice the departure of one among them to the US. She did not need to miss out.
Earlier than heading out to bounce the evening away, she snapped a photograph of herself in her occasion gear — black shorts and black halter prime for a joyous evening of digital music in a dusty discipline. She’d left her lengthy darkish hair untied and painted her nails vibrant crimson. She was clearly excited, giving a V-sign in her selfie.
And dance she did: Video shot that evening confirmed her waving her arms to the thumping beats, although she was rooted to the spot by the grey protecting boot that encased her proper foot and calf all the way in which as much as her knee.
It made her simple to acknowledge in subsequent video footage filmed as Hamas began to launch its lethal assault.
Sheltering behind a automotive with a pal, her face was marked with fear. With explosions echoing within the background, she appeared round anxiously in one other. In a remaining video, she is seen sitting simply outdoors the open door of an ambulance, carrying a brown hoodie borrowed from a pal. Two folks have been laid out contained in the car, not shifting.
At 8:43 that Saturday morning she despatched a textual content to her family members, in keeping with her father, Doron Journo: “To the entire household, I need to say that I really like you lots, as a result of I’m not coming dwelling.”
It turned out to be her remaining message.
After an terrible wait of greater than every week for information and of not figuring out whether or not Karin was a hostage in Gaza, the household received phrase from the Israeli army that her stays had been discovered.
The army mentioned the ambulance Karin had been sheltering beside was subsequently hit by a rocket, her sister, Meitav Journo, mentioned by textual content message.
“They burned her,” the sister wrote.
The funeral for Karin Journo was held Tuesday.
