Bipin Joshi, 24, a Nepalese agriculture student living on Kibbutz Alumim, was working on the kibbutz farm on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists attacked. A grenade was thrown into the bunker where Joshi and others were sheltering and he immediately picked it up and threw it at the attackers, saving many lives. Twenty-two foreign farm workers, 10 from Nepal and 12 from Thailand, were killed in Alumim.

Joshi was kidnapped and taken to Gaza. There has been no word concerning his condition since, but footage released by the IDF, later confirmed by Joshi’s friends and family, appears to show him being dragged into Gaza’s Shifa Hospital on the morning of Oct. 7. Though the video does not clearly show his face, his loved ones identified him, taking it as proof that he had been kidnapped alive.

“That morning, he spoke to his cousin and said he was at risk. He told him to take care of his family if anything happened to him,” Joshi’s best friend, Bhumika Bista, said. “It’s too painful for us to believe … but that was his last message to his cousin.”

Nepal’s Foreign Minister Arzu Rana Deuba has said of Joshi that his country’s “prime minister and the foreign minister are engaging with other leaders to request his release.”

Mahananda Joshi, Bipin’s father, said, “So many others have been released, but our son remains captive.”

*Article courtesy of Ynetnews.