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IDF Identifies Bipin Joshi Among Hostages Whose Bodies Were Returned Under Truce

The finding ends two years of uncertainty over the only non-Israeli hostage once thought to be alive in Gaza.

​Israeli authorities receive caskets from Hamas, including the body believed to be Nepali citizen Bipin Joshi.
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Overview

  • Israeli authorities said DNA checks confirmed the identities of four deceased hostages returned by Hamas, including Nepali student Bipin Joshi, Guy Ilouz, Yossi Sharabi and Daniel Peretz.
  • The Red Cross delivered the caskets to IDF troops under a ceasefire arrangement that also saw 20 living hostages released to Israel.
  • Nepal’s ambassador in Israel confirmed the handover and said repatriation of Joshi’s remains will proceed after Israeli formalities.
  • The Israeli army said Joshi was murdered in captivity during the early months of the Gaza war, clarifying the circumstances of his death.
  • Joshi, 22 at the time, was abducted from Kibbutz Alumim where he studied agriculture; reports credit him with throwing a live grenade out of a shelter, and video later showed him being taken into Gaza’s Shifa Hospital.