By Devendra Gautam
How time flies! One year has already passed since October 7 but wounds continue to fester. On that day, a Hamas attack on the Gaza Strip killed more than 1100 people, including 10 Nepali students, and saw the capture of 250, including a young Nepali student, Vipin Joshi.
The status of Joshi, among many other captives, remains unknown to this date.
The Israel-Hamas war in the Mideast has only widened and deepened since then, with lasting and devastating consequences. The toll includes the loss of more than 11000 human lives, mainly in southern Lebanon, with the intensification of Israel’s operation against Hezbollah.
Even as tenuous peace holds in the larger Mideast des