GAZA: Palestinian government official says will do everything to find two foreigners kidnapped by militants.

Palestinian Government spokesman said on Monday (August 14) that security forces will do everything needed to locate two foreign journalists working for the Fox News television channel, who were kidnapped by gunmen according to witnesses. "We think that this criminal action is not acceptable by anyone because we think that this is immoral, an illegal action done by some persons who were looking for some benefits," Ghazi Hamad said in Gaza city. Meanwhile in Khan Younis Palestinian police began checking driving cars in search for the missing journalists. The witness, a Palestinian who worked with the two journalists, said one of them, a producer, was an American, and the other, whose nationality he did not know, was a cameraman. The Fox News bureau in Jerusalem said it was checking the report. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the abduction. The witness said two vehicles blocked the journalist's transmission truck in the centre of Gaza City and a masked man put a gun to the bodyguard's head, forcing him to the ground. The kidnappers then sped away with the two journalists. Similar incidents in the past in Gaza have ended with the release, usually within hours, of kidnapped foreign journalists or aid workers. Many of the abductions were carried out by Palestinians pressing a grievance against the Palestinian government or its security forces.

ITN Source | August 15, 2006

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