Italian aid workers freed in Gaza

0 Comments | AFP, November, 2006

GAZA CITY (AFP) — Two Italian Red Cross workers kidnapped in the southern Gaza Strip were freed, the Red Cross and Palestinian security sources said. Claudio Moroni, 36, and Gianmarco Onorato, 63, were free and on their way back to Gaza City from the south Gaza town of Khan Yunis where they were abducted by gunmen hours earlier, Eyad Nasser, a spokesman for the International Red Cross in Gaza told AFP.

Palestinian security forces had mobilized to search for the abducted aid workers and set up checkpoints on roads throughout southern Gaza following the kidnappings. The two Italians had arrived in the Gaza Strip from Jerusalem only Tuesday morning to work on a joint mission between the Italian Red Cross and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society on a "psychological support...