Tel Aviv, Aug 15, 2025 (AFP) - In Israel for first time, Nepali hostage's family ache for his return

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2025-08-15

After nearly two years with no news of his fate, the family of Nepali student Bipin Joshi have come to Israel to plead for his release from captivity in Gaza. Soon after Palestinian militants kidnapped Joshi from a farm in southern Israel during Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack, all trace of the agriculture student vanished, plunging his family into agonising turmoil thousands of miles away. From a remote part of western Nepal, the family were so f......

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