Nepali student Bipin Joshin among hostages taken by Hamas
Bipin Joshin
By Our Special Correspondent
New Delhi, November 24: Hailed as a hero by globally for valiantly saving his friends from the attacks of the Hamas, Nepali student Bipin Joshin has been found to be among the hostages taken in Gaza. Videos released by the Israeli Defence Forces confirmed Joshin being among the hostages taken by the Hamas.
Joshin emerged as a hero of the October 7 Hamas terror attacks against Israel after he valiantly saved his friends. Images captured by CCTV cameras had shown that Joshin had lobbed back grenades at the attacking Hamas operatives to save his friends. According to a report of the Wall Street Journal, Joshin even while he had saved several of his friends from the Hamas attacks on October 7 had disappeared.
The investigative report had claimed that Bipin Joshin was with 16 other Nepali agriculture students in Kibbutz Alumin when the Hamas operatives had gone on a killing spree. While Joshin had gone missing, 10 of his Nepali friends were killed in the brutal October 7 Hamas attacks.
French news outlet, Liberation, confirmed in an investigative report on the basis of the CCTV footages taken from al-Shifa hospital, which has allegedly been also the command centre of the Hamas. “We now know the identity of one of the hostages seen in the CCTV footage of the Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Per an investigation by French news outlet, Liberation, surveillance footage taken by cameras at the Shifa hospital on October 7 shows that Bipin Joshin, a Nepalese student who disappeared from Kibbutz Alumim, and whose fate was unknown, was in fact taken hostage by the Hamas,” said Michael A. Horowitz, a security analyst, in a post on X.
Liberation has stated in its report that “Bipin can be seen in the blue shirt in a photo, arriving at the Shifa Hospital. He was last seen in a video of the foreign workers quarter that was attacked by the Hamas”. The same image, said Liberation, had shown several bodies in the aftermath of the Hamas attack. Incidentally, the Nepali students were in Israel as part of a study exchange programme and they were studying orange farming.
The report of the WSJ made Joshin a hero in Nepal and elsewhere as he had “managed to save some of his colleagues by throwing back a grenade that Hamas militants tossed into the room where they were hiding”.
The French daily, Liberation, in its report also said that “Joshin was seen smiling in the picture of the foreign workers with his blue t-shirt after they went to a protected area following the launch of rockets in the early morning of the attack. They later realized that this was not just another rocket attack”. The Hamas had taken the cover of the barrage of the rocket attacks to paraglide inside Israel to launch one of the most brutal and audacious attack.
“Bipin does not appear to have been injured in the initial attack, but his fate is unknown,” WSJ had said in its report. The French daily confirmed that “Joshin, 23-year-old student, was not killed on October 7 and he was brought to Gaza with more than 200 hostages”.
On the mediation of Qatar, Israel and the Hamas have agreed for a four-day ceasefire to facilitate release of the hostages. The Hamas will release the first batch of 50 hostages. Israel will also release 150 Palestinian prisoners. The report of the French daily also confirmed that the Hamas had taken even non-Israeli as hostages.
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