Gaza Gunmen Free Top Security Official-Witnesses
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Palestinian gunmen freed a top security  official on Thursday hours after abducting him in the Gaza  Strip in a fresh challenge to President Yasser Arafat's rule  amid a wave of unrest, witnesses said.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Hamas's top leader in the  West Bank was released from an Israeli prison Thursday after  completing a two-year sentence, potentially bolstering the  militant Palestinian group's standing in the area.
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Masked gunmen briefly seized the Palestinian governor's office in a southern Gaza Strip town on Sunday, demanding compensation for Israeli raids in a protest that added to signs of growing lawlessness.
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Gunmen stormed into a mourning tent for Yasser Arafat in Gaza City Sunday night shortly after the arrival of the new leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization
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The Hamas-led Palestinian government on Tuesday said it has identified the kidnappers of a BBC journalist abducted in Gaza by four masked gunmen, and hopes to free him soon.
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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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JERUSALEM, July 4 -- The kidnappers of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston released him Wednesday to a Hamas-run security force in the Gaza Strip, the most hopeful sign yet that he would soon walk free after 114 days of captivity.
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GAZA -- Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in Gaza, was freed and handed over to Palestinian officials early today after a late-night deal with the Al Qaeda-inspired, clan-based group that kidnapped him in March.
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The Hamas-led Palestinian government on Tuesday said it has identified the kidnappers of a BBC journalist abducted in Gaza by four masked gunmen, and hopes to free him soon
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Palestinian gunmen kidnapped a top  security official in the Gaza Strip on Thursday in a fresh  challenge to President Yasser Arafat's rule amid a wave of  unrest.
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Palestinian gunmen freed an Israeli Arab  producer for CNN television unharmed on Tuesday a day after  kidnapping him in the Gaza Strip. Riad Ali said his captors  told him they were members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a  militant group in Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah  movement. Spokesmen for the Brigades has denied involvement.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Sept. 16, 2004 - Gunmen briefly abducted a senior Palestinian security officer Thursday in the latest sign of growing anarchy in the Gaza Strip, and supporters of Yasser Arafat staged
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Gunmen burst into the home of a top Fatah official in Gaza early Friday and kidnapped him, the man's family said, in the first such abduction of a politician since Hamas forces routed their Fatah rivals and overtook the strip in June.
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JERUSALEM -- Masked gunmen shot and killed a senior official in the Palestinian intelligence service and four aides yesterday near the home of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.
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Palestinian officials have disbanded a Gaza security force feared by civilians, says a security official, marking a step toward reforms ahead of an election to choose a successor to Yasser Arafat.
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Israeli soldiers burst into the home of the Palestinian deputy prime minister before dawn Saturday and took him away for questioning, detaining the highest-ranking Hamas official in a seven-week-old crackdown against the ruling Islamic militant group.
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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.