GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - A Spanish aid worker kidnapped in Gaza on Monday afternoon was released hours later, Palestinian security officials said.| Uh-huh, a kidnapping. Sure. |
Palestinian gunmen on Monday abducted Vila in the central Gaza Strip, the latest in a wave of kidnappings of foreigners, Palestinian officials and colleagues of the man said. Celine Gagne, a fellow worker, said she and Vila were on their way out of the town of Khan Younis after visiting a project for handicapped children when three or four men carrying Kalashnikov rifles stopped them. She said she and Vila had arrived in Gaza earlier in the day. "They asked me to stay behind," she said. The gunmen then forced Vila into their car and sped away, she said.