Tel Aviv, Aug. 20 -- US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said he recently met the family of Bipin Joshi, a 22-year-old Nepali national who was taken hostage during the October 7 Hamas attack.

"I just had the opportunity to visit with a beautiful family from Nepal. It's the family of Bipin Joshi, who was one of the hostages taken on October 7th," Huckabee said.

In a video message on X, he explained that Joshi was not Israeli or American, but a student from Nepal who had come to Israel just weeks before the attack for agricultural studies.

He further added, "His family they were just in my office, his beautiful, precious sister who's a high school teenager, his dear and precious mother, thier hearts are broken. They have not heard from...