A father worries for his missing child: ‘My daughter didn’t go to war. She just went to dance’

Published October 13, 2023 1:05 PM

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.”

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