Gaza: Hostage UN workers freed
2005-07-29 22:21
Gaza City - An Australian and a Palestinian working for the United Nations were freed on Friday after being taken hostage in Gaza City several hours earlier by masked gunmen, say reports.
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas received the two hostages at his residence in Gaza.
Officials said the Australian woman and a Palestinian colleague working for the UN Development Programme had been forced into a vehicle outside an upmarket hotel on Gaza's Mediterranean beachfront by masked men wearing military fatigues.
- AFP