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Yossi Meirthe father of one of the Israeli hostages rescued yesterday, Almog Meir-Jandied in the early hours of Saturday, hours before learning that an operation was underway to remove the Gaza strip his son and three other people kidnapped.
“My brother died of sadness and was never able to see his son again. The night before Almog returned, my brother’s heart stopped“, confirmed his sister Dina to Israeli public broadcaster Kan.
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Yossi57 years old, lived alone in the Israeli city of Kfar Sabaand will be buried there this afternoon.
Dina He explained that an Army officer called him yesterday morning to say that they had rescued his nephew and that they had called Yossi but were unable to locate him. She couldn’t do it either, happy with the news, she immediately went home to tell him in person.
He stated that he was driving his car “like a crazy person and when I arrived I knocked on the door, shouted Yossi, Yossi… and nothing. I didn’t receive a response”, he reports. She saw that the door was open, went in and found him apparently sleeping on the sofa, but indifferent to her screams.
“I saw the color of his skin, I touched him, he was already dead“, she said through tears.
Israel carried out a successful rescue operation on Saturday for four Israeli hostages alive in the refugee camp of NuseiratIn the center of Gaza stripwhere at least 210 Gazans were killed and more than 400 injured under intense Israeli fire during the mission.
In addition to Almog Meir Jan21 years old, was also rescued alive Noa Argamani25 years old; Andrey Kozlov27 and Shlomi Ziv40 years old, who were kidnapped by Hamas at the ‘music festival’Will not‘ he October 7th.
“We are very happy with Almog’s return, but the brain cannot assimilate that this is the end. We are broken“said the aunt.
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Dina told Kan that her brother Yossi spent eight months “glued to the television clinging to every piece of information“and that each time a possible truce agreement for the release of hostages did not go ahead”your heart broke”.
“He lost 20 kilos, he couldn’t hold it back at all. He closed himself off, he didn’t want to see people. We were all worried about Yossi, but he couldn’t communicate with anyone” he added.
Almog learned the news of his father’s death shortly after being rescued, when he was reunited with his family at Sheba hospital, where he was transferred to receive medical care.
Source: Elcomercio
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