The death toll from an Israeli raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp has increased to 236 Palestinians, Gazan health officials reported Sunday. Israel’s Saturday raid, one of the bloodiest in the war, on the central Gazan camp freed four hostages. Visuals from Gaza showed roadways strewn with wreckage and grievously wounded Palestinians, some without limbs.

The father of recently rescued Israeli hostage Almog Meir Jan, 22, died hours before his son was released, a family member said Israeli public radio on Sunday.

Almog’s father, Yossi Jan, died Friday – the day before Almog’s rescue, family member Dina Jan told Kan radio. The reason of death was not immediately clear, but Israeli media reported that he had been sick.

“Yossi, my brother, Almog’s father, was glued to the television for the entire eight months, clinging to every bit of information, he loved Almog so much and worried about him and what was happening to him,” Dina recalled.

“He couldn’t bear it. My brother died from grief. Any business that fell through shattered his heart. This is heartbreaking that he didn’t get to see his son return,” she added.

Almog was one of four hostages returned by Israeli troops from two locations in central Gaza on Saturday, eight months after being seized from a music festival in southern Israel on Oct. 7. The rescue operation was one of the bloodiest attacks of the war, killing more than 230 Palestinians and demolishing apartment structures.

In Israel, the rescue operation represented a rare moment of celebration. Cheers erupted in the streets, throngs assembled at hospitals treating the recently liberated prisoners, and news anchors burst into tears when the rescue was revealed.

Israeli forces are conducting operations across Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces said Sunday, after the tragic attack at the Nuseirat refugee camp. In Deir al-Balah and Bureij in central Gaza and Rafah in the south, fighter jets and ground soldiers killed militants, struck militant sites and located tunnel shafts and weaponry, it claimed.

More than a week after President Biden declared a “decisive moment” in the eight-month Israel-Gaza war and beseeched both sides to immediately adopt a U.S.-backed cease-fire arrangement, there is scant evidence that either has bought what he is selling.

Despite Biden’s personal and very public urging, his dispatch of senior administration officials to the region, the drafting of a new United Nations Security Council resolution and the marshaling of allies to join in a chorus of approval, neither Israel nor Hamas appear to have budged on their wide divergence over the proposed road map to permanently end the war in Gaza.

Israel’s successful rescue of four hostages early Saturday, while appreciated, may further complicate administration efforts, bolstering Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence on a full military triumph and release of all remaining Hamas-held captives before Israel’s weapons are silent.

Doctors Without Borders medics on the ground in Gaza recounted chaotic events emerging at al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital and Nasser Hospital after Israel conducted a fiery assault on Saturday to rescue four Hamas-held detainees.

“It’s a nightmare at Al-Aqsa,” said Samuel Johann, a coordinator at Doctors Without Borders, better known as Médecins Sans Frontières. “There have been back-to-back mass casualties as densely populated areas are bombed. It’s much beyond what anyone could deal with in a working hospital, let alone with the scant resources we have here.”

Chris Hook, a Doctors Without Borders worker at Nasser Hospital, said about 50 critically wounded patients arrived within the space of an hour, some with “multiple major open fractures of their limbs.” He stated that some unconscious children were transported directly to intensive care and that a few people were extremely seriously burned.

Another worker with the charity, Karin Huster, described a “huge blast” adjacent to their office at 11:30 a.m. local time on Saturday, followed by “really intense” action by Israel’s military. She described “lots of bombardments, lots of shooting” and the presence of helicopters.

By early afternoon, al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital was “completely packed with patients on the floor coming from the bombings in Nuseirat,” she claimed, referring to the neighboring Nuseirat refugee camp, where the four Israeli hostages were recovered.

from least 236 Palestinians were murdered around Nuseirat, according to medics and health officials from two local hospitals. A horrific video from al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, published by the Gaza Health Ministry, shows a crowded trauma bay, with dead spread out on a bloodied floor.

Huster said there were hundreds of people suffering “the gamut of war wounds,” including amputations, severe burns and traumatic brain injuries.“There were children everywhere. There were women, there were men,” she said.

At least 236 Palestinians were killed in Israel’s operation to liberate hostages Saturday, Gaza health officials said. At al-Awda Hospital, where victims were transferred, there were 142 dead, hospital director Marwan Abu Nasser told The Post on Sunday. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital spokesman Khalil al-Degran told The Post over the weekend that the hospital had at least 94 bodies. Hundreds more are believed to be hurt.

The United States offered some intelligence that aided in Saturday’s rescue of four Israeli hostages, according to several persons familiar with the incident.

An American team located in Israel gave the information, these people said, albeit it appeared to be secondary to intelligence obtained by the Israelis before of the operation. One person indicated the U.S. material contained overhead imagery. All spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the operation’s sensitivity.

That unit, comprising of special operations and intelligence troops working out of the embassy in Jerusalem, has been in Israel since the war began in October. Since then, it has shared with Israeli colleagues information on hostages’ likely whereabouts derived from U.S. drone surveillance over Gaza, communications intercepts and other sources, said the people familiar with the matter.

“The United States is supporting all efforts to secure the release of hostages still held by Hamas, including American citizens,” national security advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement. He added this work includes continuous conversations and “other means.

JERUSALEM — Israelis, grinding into their ninth month of a war that has seemingly turned into a military quagmire, a diplomatic stalemate and an object of global censure, finally had reason to cheer Saturday, and cheer they did.

Minutes after news broke that four of the last Israeli captives had been successfully extracted from the Gaza Strip in a midday raid, applause erupted on pavements and beaches, and throngs formed outside the hospitals where the hostages were rushed.

On television, journalists cried during their breaking news alerts, as did Israeli President Isaac Herzog during his call to Noa Argamani, one of the best known of more than 250 captives carried to Gaza during the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7.

Like Argamani, the three other hostages rescued Saturday were hauled from the Nova music festival. Almog Meir Jan, 22, from the central Israel town of Or Yehuda, attended the festival a day before he was set to start a new tech job. Shlomi Ziv, a 41-year-old from Moshav Elkosh, and Andrey Kozlov, a 27-year-old recent immigrant from Russia, both worked security at the rave.

All were transferred to surrounding hospitals, allegedly in good health, to be evaluated by doctors and meet their relatives.

Israel’s military staged one of the bloodiest raids of the war Saturday, killing more than 200 Palestinians in a bold attempt to rescue four hostages from the central Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces rescued the hostages alive from two buildings in Nuseirat, an impoverished refugee camp. But the scorching assault, in the middle of the day, left terrible devastation in its wake.

Residential blocks were wrecked, tanks menaced the streets and grievously injured Palestinians, some without limbs, writhed in misery on the dusty roadways of the camp’s central market, according to recordings and photographs of the raid. Many of them never reached local hospitals, health officials added. But even then, medical facilities ravaged by the war frequently have little ability to treat injured people.