Father of Israeli hostage died on eve of son's Gaza rescue

The begetter of an Israeli hostage held successful war-torn Gaza for 8 months died conscionable 1 time earlier his lad was rescued successful a peculiar forces raid, relatives said Sunday.

Ever since Hamas’s October 7 attack, Yossi Jan had desperately waited for quality connected his lad Almog Meir Jan, 22, who was among those abducted from the Nova euphony festival.

“He was disquieted that helium (Almog) was successful the hands of murderers and astir what was happening to him and what helium was going through,” the father’s sister Dina told nationalist broadcaster Kan.

As the father’s hopes roseate and faded implicit the months, she said, “he couldn’t carnivore it … his bosom broke”.

On Saturday, Israeli peculiar forces rescued Almog Meir Jan from Gaza’s Nuseirat exile campy on with 3 others — Noa Argamani, 26, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41.

Palestinians decried the precocious decease toll from the operation, which was backed by combatant jets and tanks, portion Israelis rejoiced astatine the rescue adjacent arsenic they mourned a constabulary serviceman killed successful the raid.

But the elder Jan ne'er lived to spot the moment, having died unsocial astatine location of cardiac apprehension connected Friday.

Dina Jan said she had rushed to her brother’s location to archer him astir Almog’s merchandise and pounded connected the door. When determination was nary answer, she opened it to find her member lying inside.

“My member died of grief and didn’t spot his lad return,” she said.

The father’s ceremonial volition beryllium held aboriginal connected Sunday, attended by Almog, said the Hostages and Missing Families Forum run group.

“Almog expresses his gratitude for the enactment and love, but requests privateness to mourn his idiosyncratic loss,” the forum said.

The bloodiest ever Gaza warfare broke retired aft Hamas’s October 7 onslaught connected confederate Israel that resulted successful the deaths of 1,194 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based connected Israeli authoritative figures.

The militants took 251 radical arsenic hostages, mostly civilians, 116 of whom are inactive held captive successful Gaza, including 41 the subject says are dead.

Israel’s retaliatory subject violative against Hamas since past has killed astatine slightest 37,084 people, besides mostly civilians, according to the territory’s wellness ministry.

The ministry has labelled the hostage rescue cognition a “massacre” successful which it said 274 radical were killed and 698 were wounded, with galore women and children among the casualties.

The figures could not beryllium independently verified.