GAZA: PALESTINIAN SPECIAL SECURITY RAID RESCUES KIDNAPPED UNITED NATIONS WORKERS FROM MILITANTS

Record ID: 337955

  • Title: GAZA: PALESTINIAN SPECIAL SECURITY RAID RESCUES KIDNAPPED UNITED NATIONS WORKERS FROM MILITANTS
  • Date: 8th August 2005
  • Summary: (BN10) KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP (AUGUST 08, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF UNITED NATIONS CAR TRYING TO DRIVE WHILST BEING SHOT AT BY MILTANT IN STREET 0.07 2. VARIOUS OF GUNBATTLE BETWEEN PALESTINIAN SPECIAL SECURITY MEN AND MILITANTS/ UN CAR DRIVING DOWN ALLEY 0.24 3. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIAN SPECIAL SECURITY FORCES MEN SHOOTING TOWARDS MILITANTS 0.47 4. VARIOUS OF GUNBATTLE ON THE STREETS 1.30 6. SLV ARMED MEN WALKING PAST UN VEHICLE 2.01 7. VARIOUS OF ARMED SECURITY SURROUNDING UN VEHICLE/ ARMED MEN PUSHING EACH OTHER 2.15 8. SLV ARMED SECURITY MEN WALKING THROUGH STREETS 2.20 9. VARIOUS OF SECURITY FORCES RUNNING THROUGH STREETS/ ALLEYS , CONTINUING SHOOTING EXCHANGE 2.41 10. WIDE OF VEHICLE DRIVING DOWN STREET 2.42 11. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIAN SECURITY PATROLLING STREET / SEARCHING 2.55 12. VARIOUS OF TWO RELEASED U.N. (UNITED NATIONS) EMPLOYEES BEING PUSHED BY CROWD OF PALESTINIAN SECURITY MEN TOWARDS CAR 3.08 13. VARIOUS OF GUNBATTLE BETWEEN PALESTINIAN SECURITY MEN AND MILITANTS/ SECURITY MEN LAYING OVER RELEASED UN WORKERS TO PROTECT THEM / MEDIA TAKING PICTURES/ UN WORKERS BEING HUSTLED INTO VEHICLE 3.43 14. VARIOUS OF SECURITY CARS DRIVING AWAY/ GUNBATTLE CONTINUING 3.54 15. WIDE OF VEHICLE WITH RELEASED UN WORKERS DRIVING DOWN STREET 4.01 16. SLV PALESTINIAN SECURITY MEN CLINGING TO BACK OF FOLLOWING TRUCK 4.07 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 23rd August 2005 13:00
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  • Location: KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA22KJ5X1E05YX368B7IQWDQO72
  • Story Text: Kidnapped UN workers are rescued in Palestinian
    police raid.




    Two kidnapped United Nations (U.N.) workers were
    freed in a Palestinian police raid on Monday (August 8)
    minutes after they were abducted by gunmen in the Gaza
    Strip, security officials and witnesses said.

    The incident in Khan Younis refugee camp was the latest
    in a series of kidnappings involving foreigners and another
    sign of growing lawlessness in the Gaza Strip, where Israel
    plans to begin a pullout next week.

    Local residents and a police officer who witnessed the
    abduction said armed Palestinians cut off a U.N. vehicle
    and spirited the passengers away.

    A woman in the Gaza office of the United Nations Relief
    and Works Agency said two UNRWA employees were taken at
    gunpoint.

    Gun battles ensued between Palestinian police and the
    gunmen, from the dominant Fatah movement, and two civilians
    were wounded in the fighting, medical officials said.

    The kidnapping came a day after Palestinian security
    forces in Khan Younis arrested Sulaiman al-Fara, a top
    commander of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and a
    director of senior PLO official Farouq al-Qadoumi's office
    in the camp.

    Dozens of Gunmen seized municipal buildings on Sunday
    (August 7) in Khan Younis and threatened "actions beyond
    imagination" to secure Fara's release.


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