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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
3 Gazans said briefly kidnapped by gunmen from Sinai
2017-10-24
An odd little story.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",-run interior ministry confirms laborers went missing on Egyptian border, but were returned 'safely' hours later

Three Gazook laborers went missing Monday morning while working in a tunnel on the Egyptian border, apparently kidnapped by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
button men, but hours later were returned home safely, Gazoo’s Hamas-run interior ministry and witnesses said.

Iyad al-Bazm, the spokesperson for the ministry, confirmed "the disappearance" of three Paleostinian workers inside a tunnel on the Paleostinian-Egyptian border, adding that the disappearance was being investigated.

One witness told AFP that a group of masked button men snatched the three and took them across the border into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

The account of the witness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, was not confirmed by authorities.

However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
a few hours after going missing, Bazm released another statement saying the workers had been located on the Egyptian-Paleostinian border, "and were returned safely to Gazoo."

The Safa News Agency reported the laborers had been kidnapped from a tunnel near the Salah-a-Din gate of the Rafah border crossing into Egypt. The motive for the kidnapping was not immediately clear

Gazooks use such tunnels to smuggle goods, weapons, and fighters into and out of the Paleostinian enclave that has been under Israeli and Egyptian blockade for a decade, following Hamas’s violent 2007 takeover of the Gazoo Strip and its use of the area as a launchpad for attacks on Israel.
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