BBC journalist Alan Johnston freed: Hamas
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston was freed early Wednesday in Gaza City after nearly four months in captivity, following an agreement reached by the Islamist movement Hamas with his abductors.
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Hamas accused the Palestinian leadership on Sunday of sabotaging the release of BBC journalist Alan Johnston who has been held hostage in the Gaza Strip by Islamic militants for 104 days.
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Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in Gaza, was freed early on Wednesday after a late-night deal between the ruling Hamas Islamists and the al Qaeda-inspired clan group that kidnapped him in March.
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Palestinian movement Hamas threatens to use force to free BBC reporter Alan Johnston by the end of Monday.
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A senior leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the West Bank was released after two years of detention in an Israeli jail, Palestinian witnesses said Thursday.
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Hamas on Monday arrested the spokesman of a shadowy group holding British reporter Alan Johnston, a move that could give it a bargaining chip to secure the Briton's release.
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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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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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The Army of Islam on Friday released an Internet video showing the first pictures of BBC journalist Alan Johnston since he was kidnapped in Gaza City in March.
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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 has pledged in the wake of its bloody seizure of the Gaza Strip to work to free BBC reporter Alan Johnston, snatched by gunmen more than three months ago in the volatile territory.
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UK MPs urge engagement with Hamas, after it helped free BBC correspondent Alan Johnston in Gaza.
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JERUSALEM, June 25 -- The release Monday of a new video showing BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped March 12 in the Gaza Strip, appeared to dash hopes raised last week that his release was imminent.
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Hamas says it has urged BBC reporter Alan Johnston's kidnappers to release him immediately.
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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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An internet video shows the first pictures of the BBC's Alan Johnston since his abduction in Gaza in March.
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Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in the Gaza Strip since March, was handed over by his Islamist captors to ruling Hamas officials on Wednesday, Palestinian sources close to negotiations for his release said.