The Hostage Families Forum released a statement on Wednesday saying that Nepali hostage Bipin Joshi’s family plans to reveal new footage of Joshi from Gaza, where he has remained hostage since his kidnapping by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
The documentation was collected by the IDF as loot and was recently brought to their attention by intelligence officials.
The video was estimated to have been shot in November 2023, documenting Bipin in Hamas captivity.
“The sign of life found in Gaza, which we share with you today, is for us an anchor of firm faith that he is alive,” the Joshi family said.
Bipin is an agriculture student who arrived at Kibbutz Alumim from Nepal less than a month before the war. On the morning of October 7th, he hid with his friends in a shelter on the kibbutz. When the terrorists threw in the first grenade, he managed to push it out and throw it away, but the second grenade thrown at them left him and his friends unconscious. He was abducted from the shelter along with several other agricultural workers from his country.
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