{"id":80420,"date":"2024-06-09T16:59:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T16:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/09\/father-of-israeli-hostage-died-one-day-before-sons-rescue\/"},"modified":"2024-06-09T16:59:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T16:59:20","slug":"father-of-israeli-hostage-died-one-day-before-sons-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/09\/father-of-israeli-hostage-died-one-day-before-sons-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of Israeli hostage died one day before son’s rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"


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By\u00a0Jake Lapham,\u00a0<\/span>BBC News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Almog Meir Jan embraces a family member after his rescue from Gaza<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The father of an Israeli hostage rescued during a military operation in Gaza died a day before he could be reunited with his son, a relative has said.<\/p>\n

Almog Meir Jan, 22, was held in Gaza for eight months after being kidnapped from the Nova music festival on 7 October.<\/p>\n

He was one of four hostages who were rescued from central Gaza on Saturday, in an air and ground raid that also killed scores of Palestinians.<\/p>\n

In the months before Almog’s release, the health of his father Yossi deteriorated and he was “glued to the television”, his sister Dina told Israeli broadcaster Kan.<\/p>\n

“He was worried that he (Almog) was in the hands of murderers and about what was happening to him and what he was going through,” Ms Jan said.<\/p>\n

Yossi Jan is believed to have died of a heart attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy brother died of grief and didn\u2019t get to see his son return,” Dina Jan said.<\/p>\n

The rescue of Almog Jan and three other hostages was met with jubilation and relief in Israel, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanhu praised special forces for operating “creatively and bravely”.<\/p>\n

But the humanitarian toll of the operation, which included a barrage of Israeli airstrikes, has sparked condemnation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Grief in Gaza as scores killed in IDF hostage raid<\/figcaption><\/p>\n
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Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said 274 people were killed in the operation<\/a>. If confirmed, it would make it one of the deadliest days in Gaza since the beginning of the conflict.<\/p>\n

A Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson said the death toll was fewer than 100. <\/p>\n

Qatar’s Prime Minister called for an intensification of global pressure on Israel to stop its “barbaric aggression” in Gaza, during a summit in Doha on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The European Union’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, condemned the killings as “another massacre of civilians”.<\/p>\n

An Israeli minister said that instead of condemning Hamas for hiding behind civilians, the EU had condemned Israel for saving its citizens.<\/p>\n

Israeli forces, backed by air strikes, fought intense gun battles with Hamas in the Nuseirat area, in what the Israel Defense Forces called a “high-risk, complex mission” based on “precise” intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anti-government protesters were on the streets of Tel Aviv again on Saturday night<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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In addition to Almog Meir Jan, hostages Noa Argamani, 26, Andrei Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41, were rescued during the operation.<\/p>\n

Some 116 people kidnapped in October remain in captivity. More than a third of them have already been confirmed dead, but that number is thought likely to be higher.<\/p>\n

Benjamin Netanyahu visited the four returned hostages in hospital, telling one “we didn’t give up on you for one moment”.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe expect Hamas to release them all. But if they don\u2019t, we will do whatever it takes to get them all back home,” Mr Netanyahu said outside hospital.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said 37,084 people had been killed since the beginning of the conflict.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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