US Ambassador Mike Huckabee met with the family of Bipin Joshi, a student from Nepal who was abducted by Hamas terrorists during the October 7 massacre and continues to be held in captivity more than 22 months later.
Following the meeting, Ambassador Huckabee stated: “I just had the opportunity to visit with a beautiful family from Nepal. It’s the family of Bipin Joshi. He was one of the hostages taken on October the 7th. He’s not American, he’s not Israeli, he’s from Nepal. He just happened to be here a couple of weeks before October the 7th.”
“He was here to do agricultural work and he was at one of the kibbutzim that was overrun by Hamas and he was taken hostage,” he explained. “His family were just in my office: His beautiful, precious sister, who’s a high school teenager and his dear and precious mother. Their hearts are broken. They haven’t heard from Bipin since he was taken hostage. They don’t know his condition. They just want their son, their brother, to come home.”
Turning to all who watch or listen to his address, the Ambassador stated that he hopes “that you will pray that this ordeal for the hostage families can be over.”
“For so many of these families,” he added, “they’re not combatants. They weren’t soldiers. They’re just innocent civilian people who happened to be in the way of Hamas and who were taken captive. And their families want them back.”
“We want them back, and we will do everything possible for them to return,” Amb. Huckabee concluded.