10:46 a.m.: Nepalese mourn their young people killed in Israel and their shattered dreams
On a small farm in Nepal, a father mourns the death and shattered “dreams” of his 25-year-old son, one of 10 Nepalese agricultural students massacred during the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7. Just last month, Ashish Chaudhary’s family dreamed of a better future thanks to the 11-month Israeli Learn and Earn program the young man had joined.
“I thought it would be good for him and give him a bright future,” his father Bejhulal Dangaura said with tears in his eyes in his village in Kailali district in the west of the country. “If I had known about the danger, I would have stopped him from leaving.” Ashish Chaudhary was assigned to the front line of Kibbutz Aloumim near the Gaza border during the Islamist movement’s attack.
In total, more than 1,400 people were shot, stabbed or burned alive in Israel in this attack, the worst in the country’s history. At least 2,750 people were killed in Israel’s retaliatory strikes in the Gaza Strip. Like Ashish Chaudhary, nine other Nepalese students were massacred, four were injured and one is missing.