The Nepal Airlines (NA) aircraft is flying to Israel at 11:00 tonight to bring home the dead bodies of the Nepalis from there. According to Deepak Joshi, personal aide of Minister for Foreign Affairs Narayan Prasad Saud, the national flag carrier will fly to Israel via Dubai for the same. Altogether 10 Nepali students who had been to Israel under the ‘Learn and Earn’ programme were killed in the terrorist attack at Kibbutz Alumim in the southern area of Israel on October 7.
Similarly, a search operation for Bipin Joshi, the missing Nepali in the incident, is underway. The Nepali Embassy in Israel stated that they were searching for missing Joshi in various hospitals through a student who was living with Bipin who was rescued safely after the attack. The Nepali diplomatic mission in Israel on Wednesday had appraised the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Bipin was not found during the search in various hospitals and they had sought assistance from Israel for the search. (RSS)
Earlier today, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ had directed the concerned officials for immediate rescue of the Nepalis willing to come back home. He had instructed the officials to dispatch the plane today itself for bringing in the bodies of those killed in the Hamas attack.
