Hamas pressures reporter's kidnappers
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Hamas gunmen on Tuesday took up positions around the stronghold of the shadowy group holding kidnapped British journalist Alan Johnston, stepping up the pressure to secure the correspondent's release.
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Journalist held hostage in Gaza Strip since March says his ordeal was 'like being buried alive'.
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GAZA STRIP -- A BBC correspondent was kidnapped in the Gaza Strip yesterday by unknown assailants, Palestinian security officials said.
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Hamas said Monday it had made arrests in Gaza over the abduction of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, who has been held by extremists in the territory for 112 days.
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Hamas said on Wednesday it was working to secure the release of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, whose 100 days of captivity in the hands of Palestinian extremists in the Gaza Strip was marked by journalists and other supporters in worldwide vigils.
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JERUSALEM, July 4 -- The kidnappers of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston released him Wednesday to a Hamas-run security force in the Gaza Strip, setting him free after 114 days of captivity.
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In the third of his exclusive films for Guardian Unlimited, Clancy Chassay finds that the rise of Islamic Jihad and worsening conditions in Gaza are putting pressure on Hamas to return to violence.
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As both BBC reporter Alan Johnston and Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit speak out, Hamas must show that it is powerful and responsible enough to win their release
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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said on Sunday that the kidnappers of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston have made a new video of the abducted journalist wearing what appeared to be explosives around his waist.
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Armed men kidnapped BBC correspondent Alan Johnston after forcing him from his car in the volatile Gaza Strip on Monday, Palestinian security sources said.
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JERUSALEM -- Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent kidnapped March 12 in the Gaza Strip, appeared in a video posted yesterday on a website used by Al Qaeda in which he said he is being treated well and called for an end to sanctions against the Palestinian Authority.
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Palestinian journalists on Saturday protested the kidnapping of a Fox News correspondent and cameraman, as concern about the men's safety grew.
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Palestinian gunmen yesterday released a CNN journalist abducted in Gaza City apparently to pressure members of an Arab minority group not to serve in the Israeli army.
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The Islamic Resistance movement(Hamas) has threatened to kidnap Israelis in exchange for thousands of Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails, Palestinian sources said Saturday.
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THE leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas has urged Iraqi militants to stop taking hostages and concentrate on fighting the US-led occupation of their country.
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Masked Palestinian gunmen ambushed a car carrying a Fox News crew in Gaza City on Monday and kidnapped two journalists, according to witnesses and Fox.
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The first night after he was snatched in Gaza nearly four months ago, BBC reporter Alan Johnston feared he was about to die. The kidnappers' masked leader appeared in the doorway, and moments later the prisoner was handcuffed, hooded and taken outside.