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Palestinian Militants Try to Abduct Foreign Journalist


(DPA/News24-South Africa) Palestinian militants tried to abduct a foreign journalist working for an American news outlet as he was reporting outside a hospital in Rafah, the Foreign Press Association in Israel said Thursday. A group of men outside Rafah's al-Najjar hospital first engaged him in conversation, but then grabbed him and tried to bundle him into a car. Passers-by who heard the journalist's shouts managed to foil the kidnapping. The Israeli army has repeatedly warned that it had intelligence information indicating that Palestinian militants planned to abduct foreign journalists.
2004-05-20 00:00:00
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