Nepalis mourn relatives and broken dreams in wake of devastating Hamas massacre

On a small farm in Nepal, a weeping father mourns the lost dreams of his 25-year-old son, among the 10 Nepali agriculture students massacred in Hamas’s devastating onslaught in Israel.

It was only last month that Ashish Chaudhary’s family had been celebrating his hopes of building a better life after he joined Israel’s 11-month “Learn and Earn” work-study program.

“I thought… it would be good for him and his bright future,” his father Bejhulal Dangaura told AFP with tears in his eyes.

Chaudhary was among the 10 Nepali students killed when Hamas launched its October 7 massacre, which saw at least 2,500 terrorists burst across the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip by land, air, and sea, killing over 1,400 people and taking at least 199 hostages under the cover of thousands of rockets fired at Israeli cities.