Four abducted from Gaza City hotel by gunmen
Palestinian gunmen today abducted two South Korean journalists and two other people from a Gaza City hotel frequented by foreigners, security officials and witnesses said.
The abduction came just hours after an Israeli army raid of a West Bank prison, in which troops demanded the surrender of the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a radical PLO faction.
The kidnappers in Gaza are from the PFLP, police said.
The gunmen raided the hotel this afternoon, abducting the two South Korean reporters, their Palestinian fixer and a fourth person, witnesses said. The Palestinian fixer was quickly released.
During the abduction, the gunmen exchanged fire with police, who wounded one of the kidnappers and arrested a second.
The PFLP has threatened to abduct foreigners if there leader was harmed by Israeli troops.
