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Kidnapped Aid Worker: "I Feel Like I've Been Stabbed in the Back; I Was Here to Help"

(Times-UK) Ian MacKinnon - Kidnapped British aid worker Kate Burton, held for three days with her parents in Gaza, had a blazing row with her captors shortly before their release, she told The Times Monday. As the two Palestinian gunmen who had abducted them prepared to video their captives as a condition of their release, "The kidnappers...started shouting at me," she said. "They told me I was being disrespectful, despite all the food and blankets they'd given us. I got really mad. I screamed at him, 'Do you want me to get down on my knees and say thank you?'" "I told them, 'I came to work with these people and I feel like I've been stabbed in the back.'" "I can't forgive them for what they did to me, but I think they will keep doing it in future." Burton expressed guilt at having taken her parents to Gaza, despite Foreign Office travel advice not to make such a visit. "I wanted them to see it was safe and feel a bit calmer about where I lived. But I've given them their worst Christmas and their worst holiday ever....The last thing they said was, 'We're never coming back.'"
2006-01-03 00:00:00
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