{"id":418127,"date":"2025-10-13T12:59:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=418127"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:52:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:07:43","slug":"israeli-army-says-no-evidence-of-bipin-joshi-being-alive-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2025\/10\/13\/418127.html","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Army says no evidence of Bipin Joshi being alive found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"119\" data-end=\"187\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-418128 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/bipin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/bipin.jpg 960w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/bipin-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/bipin-768x710.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"189\" data-end=\"360\"><strong>October 13, Kathmandu:<\/strong> The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have said that there is no evidence showing that Bipin Joshi, a Nepali student held captive by Hamas since October 7, 2023, is alive.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"362\" data-end=\"570\">This information was conveyed during a video conference this morning at 7:30 AM local time, involving Nepal\u2019s Ambassador to Israel, Dhan Prasad Pandit, Joshi\u2019s sister Pushpa Joshi, and other family members.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"572\" data-end=\"789\">Ambassador Pandit reported that IDF officials stated, \u201cThere wasn\u2019t any evidence showing his status as alive,\u201d confirming that Joshi is not among the hostages released today under the Gaza ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"791\" data-end=\"1074\">Joshi, now 25, arrived in Israel from Nepal to pursue agricultural studies under the \u201cLearn and Earn\u201d program. During the October 7, 2023, attack on Kibbutz Alumim, he was taken hostage by Hamas. Ten Nepali students were killed in the attack, and Joshi was among the survivors abducted.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1076\" data-end=\"1382\">The IDF had previously recovered a video believed to have been filmed in November 2023, showing Joshi alive in Hamas captivity. However, officials emphasised that this footage cannot confirm his current status, and there is still no verified information regarding whether he is alive or deceased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 13, Kathmandu: The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have said that there is no evidence showing that Bipin Joshi, a Nepali student held captive by Hamas since October 7, 2023, is alive. This information was conveyed during a video conference this morning at 7:30 AM local time, involving Nepal\u2019s Ambassador to Israel, Dhan Prasad Pandit, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":418129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,8,3,6,4,5,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-418127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administration","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-featured","category-en-news","category-top-stories","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418130,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418127\/revisions\/418130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418127"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=418127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}