GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, Jan 1: The health ministry in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip said Monday at least 21,978 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory since the war with Israel erupted on October 7.

DOHA, Dec. 10 : Mediation efforts are continuing to secure a new Gaza ceasefire and free more hostages held by Hamas despite ongoing Israeli bombardment that is "narrowing the window" for a successful outcome, Qatar's prime minister said Sunday.

JERUSALEM, Dec 1: Israel’s military said it had resumed combat operations in the Gaza Strip minutes after a temporary truce with Hamas expired Friday, blaming the militant group for breaking the cease-fire.

JERUSALEM, Nov 30: Israel and Hamas on Thursday agreed to extend a temporary truce by another day minutes before it was set to expire, said Qatar, which has been mediating between the two sides.

DODHARA CHANDANI (KANCHANPUR), Nov 30: Parents of Bipin Joshi have spent the last 52 days in anxious anticipation. Joshi is one among the Nepali students taken captive by the Hamas militants in course of their October 7 attack in southern Israel.

KATHMANDU, Nov 29: The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel has brought some calm to the area. But, in Kanchanpur, Nepal, far from Israel, Bipin's relatives are going through a war in their minds.

DOHA, Nov 28: A humanitarian pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas will extend by two days, mediator Qatar said Monday as an initial four-day truce in Gaza was set to expire.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip, Nov 26:The tense cease-fire between Israel and Hamas appeared to be back on track early Sunday after the release of a second group of militant-held hostages and Palestinians from Israeli prisons, but the swap followed an hourslong delay that underscored the truce’s fragility.

KATHMANDU, Nov 25: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal requested the Qatari government for its cooperation in securing the release of Bipin Joshi from the captivity of Hamas.

GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, Nov. 25: Two Hamas sources told AFP that some of the hostages seized in the October 7 raids on Israel were on Friday handed over to the Red Cross for return to Israel, via Egypt.

KATHMANDU, Nov 22: Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas on Wednesday announced a four-day truce in Gaza giving some respite to the besieged Gaza residents as well as hopes of release of prisoners taken hostage by Hamas during the October 7 attack in southern Israel.

KATHMANDU, Nov 22: Hamas and Israel have agreed to a temporary ceasefire for four days.

KATHMANDU, Nov 20: The whereabouts of Nepali student Bipin Joshi, who was one among those held hostage and taken towards Gaza following an assault by Hamas in Israel, is still not known.

The military structure of Hamas may be crushed or eliminated but the intractable political problems remain intact.

MAHENDRANAGAR, Nov 18: The whereabouts of Bipin Joshi of Bhimdutta Municipality-3 in Kanchanpur, who is under the control of Hamas for the past 43 days, are still unknown.

KATHMANDU,  Nov 5:  The bodies of all 10 Nepali students who died in the attack by Hamas group in southern Israel have arrived in Nepal.

Israel-Hamas War and Nepal

October 29, 2023 09:00 am

More than 260,000 Nepalese currently work in Qatar alone. A slight diplomatic slip with Qatar, which is reported to house Hamas HQ, means a foreign policy and economic disaster in Nepal.

RAFAH, GAZA STRIP, Oct 24:  Hamas on Monday released two elderly Israeli women held hostage in Gaza as the United States expressed increasing concern that the escalating Israel-Hamas war will spark a wider conflict in the region, including attacks on American troops.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip, Oct 22: Israeli warplanes struck targets across Gaza overnight and into Sunday, as well as two airports in Syria and a mosque in the occupied West Bank allegedly used by militants, as the two-week-old war with Hamas threatened to spiral into a broader conflict.

JERUSALEM, Oct 10: The devastating failure of the Israeli intelligence services to predict the deadly Hamas incursion stemmed from a total misunderstanding of the militant group, experts have said.

KAILALI, Oct 9: The Sudurpaschim Province government has decided to provide Rs 200,000 each in cash relief for the families of the Nepalis killed in Hamas attacks on Israel.

TEHRAN, Oct 9: Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi spoke Sunday with leaders of Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, official media said, a day after Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel.

GAZA, Sept 4: Gaza's ruling Hamas Islamists executed five Palestinians on Sunday, two of them on charges of espionage for Israel that dated back to 2015 and 2009, the Interior Ministry said.

TEL AVIV, Aug 22: Israeli aircraft struck Hamas sites in Gaza late on Saturday, the military said, in an escalation of hostilities after earlier cross-border gunfire seriously injured an Israeli soldier and wounded 41 Palestinians, including two critically.

JERUSALEM, May 21: Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire Thursday, halting a bruising 11-day war that caused widespread destruction in the Gaza Strip, brought life in much of Israel to a standstill and left more than 200 people dead.

GAZA, May 16: Israel bombed the home of Hamas’s chief in Gaza early on Sunday and the Islamist group fired rocket barrages at Tel Aviv as hostilities stretched into a seventh day with no sign of abating.

GAZA CITY, May 15: The Gaza Strip was pounded this week by hundreds of Israeli strikes from sea, land and air, while the enclave’s militant Hamas rulers fired hundreds of rockets into Israel.

GAZA, May 13: Hamas launched rockets at Tel Aviv and toward Jerusalem early on Thursday and Israel vowed to keep pummelling the Islamist faction in Gaza despite a prediction by U.S. President Joe Biden that their fiercest hostilities in years might end soon.

CAIRO, Aug1 : A delegation of senior Hamas leaders arrived in Cairo on Monday for talks with Egyptian officials regarding Palestinian reconciliation, Hamas spokesperson Fawzy Barhoum said in a statement.

GAZA , July 21: Hamas said on Saturday it had agreed a truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip, a day after clashes killed an Israeli soldier and four Palestinians along the volatile border.

GAZA , July 21: Hamas said on Saturday it had agreed a truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip, a day after clashes killed an Israeli soldier and four Palestinians along the volatile border.

JERUSALEM, July 15: The Israeli military carried out its largest airstrike campaign in Gaza since the 2014 war Saturday as Hamas militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel throughout the day, threatening to trigger an all-out war after weeks of growing tensions along the volatile border.

KHAN YUNIS, June 8: One of the few foreign backers of Hamas, faces massive pressure from its Gulf neighbors to cut ties with the Islamic militant group. If it does, the result could be disastrous for Hamas-ruled Gaza.