{"id":31562,"date":"2025-09-20T20:10:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=31562"},"modified":"2025-09-20T20:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:27:03","slug":"hamas-posts-farewell-photo-of-48-people-including-nepals-bipin-joshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/hamas-posts-farewell-photo-of-48-people-including-nepals-bipin-joshi\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Hamas posts \u2018farewell photo\u2019 of 48 people, including Nepal\u2019s Bipin Joshi’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aljazeera:<\/strong> The armed wing of Hamas has released what it calls a \u201cfarewell picture\u201d of 48 Israeli captives held in Gaza as the Israeli army continues to destroy and seize the besieged enclave\u2019s largest urban centre.<\/p>\n

Qassam Brigades posted a compilation photo online on Saturday, showing the faces of all living and deceased captives, with each of them captioned \u201cRon Arad\u201d in reference to the Israeli air force captain who went missing in Lebanon in 1986.<\/p>\n

Arad\u2019s F-4 Phantom suffered a premature bomb detonation during an attack on southern Lebanon. He was captured by the Amal Movement and later handed over to Hezbollah. Arad is believed to have died, but conclusive proof is not available about his fate.<\/p>\n

The image released by Hamas was accompanied by a text, stating: \u201cBecause of Netanyahu\u2019s refusal, and Zamir\u2019s capitulation, a farewell picture as the military operation in Gaza City begins.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was a reference to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s repeated rejection of any agreement with Hamas to put an end to the genocidal war in Gaza, and the expanding ground and air attacks led by Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir, despite his public objections to the government\u2019s \u201cconquest\u201d plans for Gaza City.<\/p>\n

Israeli authorities have said they believe about 20 captives are still being held alive in Gaza, whereas United States President Donald Trump has suggested fewer than 20 could be alive. Trump and Netanyahu have repeatedly said they will bring back all living and dead captives and \u201cdestroy\u201d Hamas.<\/p>\n

Hamas has persistently warned that intensifying Israeli attacks and a ground invasion would endanger the lives of the captives, with some already being killed by Israeli bombs. The armed Palestinian group also claims that captives are \u201cscattered throughout the neighbourhoods\u201d of Gaza City.<\/p>\n

The threat by Hamas on Saturday came hours before hundreds of thousands of Israelis were once again expected to pour into the streets of Tel Aviv and other cities to denounce the government and demand an immediate and comprehensive deal to end the war and bring back all captives.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Hamas released a video of two Israeli captives, a move that came roughly a month after it broadcast footage of two more emaciated Israeli captives, one of whom it said was seen digging his own grave.<\/p>\n

The images prompted outrage among the families of the captives, as well as Israeli government officials and authorities in the US and other Israeli allies.<\/p>\n

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, at least 65,208 Palestinians have been killed and 166,271 wounded by Israel since the start of the war in October 2023. Since March 18, when Israel broke a ceasefire with Hamas, 12,653 people have been killed and 54,230 wounded.<\/p>\n

As Israel continues to starve the enclave, at least four aid seekers have been killed and 18 wounded over the past day, bringing the total number of Palestinian aid seekers killed to 2,518 people.<\/p>\n

Dozens more people have been killed in Gaza City over the past day, with homes attacked and destroyed and thousands forced to flee as the entire area is designated a combat zone by Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aljazeera: The armed wing of Hamas has released what it calls a \u201cfarewell picture\u201d of 48 Israeli captives held in Gaza as the Israeli army continues to destroy and seize the besieged enclave\u2019s largest urban centre. Qassam Brigades posted a compilation photo online on Saturday, showing the faces of all living and deceased captives, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31562"}],"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=31562"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31567,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31562\/revisions\/31567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}