Freed BBC reporter thanks Abbas
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston meets Palestinian President Abbas to thank him for helping secure his release.
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A Hamas official said on Sunday BBC reporter Alan Johnston, abducted in Gaza three months ago, would be released within hours.
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Palestinian gunmen have released an Israeli Arab producer working for the CNN television network who was kidnapped yesterday in the Gaza Strip.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Thousands of Palestinians  including armed militants gave presidential election  frontrunner Mahmoud Abbas a hero's welcome on Saturday in a  Gaza refugee camp shattered by fighting with Israel.
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Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in Gaza, was freed and handed over to Palestinian officials early on Wednesday after a late-night deal with the al Qaeda-inspired, clan-based group that kidnapped him in March.
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Journalist held hostage in Gaza for almost four months, has been released, BBC confirms.
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Kidnapped BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston said he was in good health and being treated well in a video released on Friday, the first since militants abducted him in the Palestinian enclave over 11 weeks ago.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has promised to offer help to win the release of British hostage Kenneth Bigley held by militants in Iraq, the BBC quoted a senior Irish politician as reporting on Tuesday.
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Masked Palestinian gunmen kidnapped a BBC reporter from his car in Gaza City on Monday, Palestinian security officials said. As he was being taken, the journalist threw a business card on the street that identified him as Alan Johnston of the BBC, the officials said.
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Israeli officials said it was a gesture to Egypt for freeing a convicted Israeli spy, and to the new Palestinian leadership ahead of next month&#39;s Palestinian elections.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel said yesterday it would free 170 jailed Palestinians in a gesture of gratitude for Egypt's release two weeks ago of an Israeli Arab imprisoned for spying.
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston was released in Gaza City early Wednesday after nearly four months in captivity, following an agreement reached by the Islamist movement Hamas with his extremist abductors.
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Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist captured in the Gaza Strip over two months ago, is alive and well and could be freed &quot;very, very soon,&quot; a Palestinian government spokesman said late Saturday.
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Palestinian gunmen freed an Israeli Druze producer for CNN television unharmed yesterday, a day after kidnapping him in the Gaza Strip.
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CNN producer Riad Ali Ghanem, who was kidnapped at gunpoint in Gaza City on Monday, was released on Tuesday evening following an agreement reached between his abductors and the Palestinian Authority.
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The video was the first evidence that a BBC reporter abducted in Gaza City on March 12 was still alive.
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Kidnapped BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston said his captors had treated him well in an Internet video issued by them on Friday.