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Gaza fighters release hostages
 Palestinian fighters have released two French aid workers kidnapped on Tuesday in response to an Israeli raid on a West Bank prison, as a day of protests and kidnappings in Gaza comes to end. It was the worst day of foreign abductions in the increasingly chaotic and hostage-prone Gaza Strip since Israel withdrew its troops and settlers from the territory last September. Two French journalists and a South Korean journalist remain hostages in the custody of Palestinian fighters in Gaza. A US teacher of English at the Arab American University in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, Douglas Johnson, 45, was also briefly kidnapped by Palestinian fighters. An armed group set free a Swiss employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Julien Grosclaude, whom they abducted in Gaza. Two Australians, taken from a school in northern Gaza, have also been released.Posted by: Fred 2006-03-15 |
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