“They burned her:” At the end of an awful wait for news comes word that a feared hostage is dead

By JOHN LEICESTER
Associated Press

PARIS (AP) — Because of the fracture in her leg, Karin Journo had talked herself out of going to the Tribe of Nova music festival and sold her ticket. But a week before Hamas militants turned the party into a killing ground, she bought another. The 24-year-old French-Israeli airport worker didn’t want to miss out. Video shot that night showed her waving her arms to the thumping beats. At 8:43 that Saturday morning she sent a text: “To the whole family, I want to say that I love you a lot, because I am not coming home.”  It turned out to be her final message. After an awful wait of more than a week for news and of not knowing whether Karin was a hostage in Gaza, the family got word from the Israeli military that her remains had been found.