Two Italians snatched in Gaza, three Palestinians killed

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GAZA CITY (AFP) — Two Italian aid workers were kidnapped in the chaotic Gaza Strip as three Palestinians, including an elderly woman, were killed in Israeli incursions. The Two Red Cross workers were snatched at gunpoint from their vehicle in southern Gaza while travelling alone, en route back to Gaza City from Khan Yunis, in the latest abduction of foreigners to blight the chaotic territory.

"Both of them were Italian Red Cross workers and both were Italian," said Simon Schorno, a spokesman for the International Committee for the Red Cross, naming them as Claudio Moroni, 36, and Gianmarco Onorato, 63. The two had arrived in the Gaza Strip from Jerusalem the same morning, said Schorno, to work on a joint mission between the Italian Red Cross and the Palestinian Red Crescent...