Israel’s military released footage with blurred faces that it says shows Hamas militants taking hostages into Al-Shifa Hospital on Oct. 7. WSJ spoke to friends and colleagues of captured Nepali student Bipin Joshi, whom they believe to be one of the men in the video. Photo: Scene from a video released by Israel Defense Forces/circle illustration by WSJThe footage held little more than a grainy flicker of a young man being bundled through the hallways of Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital by armed militants, but to friends and colleagues his identity seemed clear: It was Bipin. Nepali student Bipin Joshi, 23 years old, had last been seen on the morning of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, dragged away by militants who had killed 10 of his countrymen in the southern Israeli kibbutz where they harvested oranges and lemons. Since then, a small number of Nepali diplomats, local volunteers and Bipin’s friends had been piecing together fragments of evidence to answer a basic question: Did he survive?

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Persons: Bipin Joshi Organizations: Shifa, Israel Defense Forces Locations: Al, Gaza’s