{"id":28676,"date":"2025-08-12T08:33:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=28676"},"modified":"2025-08-12T08:33:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:48:29","slug":"family-of-nepalese-hostage-bipin-joshi-arrives-in-israel-to-seek-sons-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/family-of-nepalese-hostage-bipin-joshi-arrives-in-israel-to-seek-sons-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of Nepalese hostage Bipin Joshi arrives in Israel to seek son\u2019s return"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Timesofisrael:<\/strong> The mother and sister of hostage Bipin Joshi, a Nepali agricultural volunteer taken captive from Kibbutz Alumim on October 7, landed in Israel on Monday for their first visit since their loved one\u2019s abduction.<\/p>\n

Reporters surrounded the pair after they exited customs at Ben Gurion Airport, seeking a first comment from them.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease, rescue my son,\u201d said Joshi\u2019s mother, Padma Joshi, as she broke down in tears. \u201cHamas, bring [him] back home now. Please, return [him] home, Hamas. Please. Please.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joshi\u2019s sister, Pushpa, 17, thanked the Israeli people for their support and the government officials who flew the family in.<\/p>\n

She said that her brother came to Israel to study as part of his academic program and was caught in a war that has nothing to do with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just want him back,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s too much for me and my family. It\u2019s been almost two years. We can\u2019t help but think about his condition \u2014 what he is doing there, whether he is getting food, whether he is getting medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Waiting at the airport for the family were four friends of Bipin, who studied with him in university in Nepal, came with him to Israel in September 2023, and were wounded during the Hamas-led attack on October, but managed to evade captivity.<\/p>\n

The president of the Israeli college where Bipin studied agriculture also came to welcome his loved ones.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a very curious and very positive person. He always had the thought that he wanted to do something new, and he always wanted to try a lot of things. He also loved music,\u201d one of Bipin\u2019s friends told the Ynet news site, adding that he loved playing guitar and soccer.<\/p>\n

Joshi was hiding with other agricultural students and Thai workers at an outdoor shelter at Alumim on October 7, and according to accounts, caught one of the grenades thrown at them and hurled it outside.<\/p>\n

During their visit to Israel, Joshi\u2019s family will visit Alumim where he lived, meet his friends and receive intelligence assessments from government officials on his condition.<\/p>\n

They are also expected to meet with President Isaac Herzog, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa\u2019ar, and Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, according to a statement from the Foreign Ministry and the Directorate for Hostages, Missing Persons and Returnees at the Prime Minister\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

The statement noted that \u201csince November 2023, no sign of life has been received from [Joshi], and there is deep concern for his life.\u201d<\/p>\n

In May this year, Joshi was among three hostages, the others being Tamir Nimrodi and fellow Thai captive Pinta Nattapong, whose fates were determined by Israel to be unknown.<\/p>\n

Nattapong, the only other foreign hostage held in Gaza at the time, was later announced dead after his body was recovered in a June IDF operation.<\/p>\n

Hamas holds fifty hostages total, of whom twenty are believed to be alive. Twenty-eight have been confirmed dead by the Israel Defense Forces. The government has expressed \u201cgrave concern\u201d about the fates of two others, understood to be Joshi and Nimrodi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Timesofisrael: The mother and sister of hostage Bipin Joshi, a Nepali agricultural volunteer taken captive from Kibbutz Alumim on October 7, landed in Israel on Monday for their first visit since their loved one\u2019s abduction. Reporters surrounded the pair after they exited customs at Ben Gurion Airport, seeking a first comment from them. \u201cPlease, rescue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28678,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28676\/revisions\/28678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}