GAZA (PIC)– Unknown armed men on Monday evening kidnapped a BBC reporter after intercepting his car in Remal suburb west of Gaza city in an apparent bid to re-kindle the security mess in PA-run lands.
A PA security source said that the gunmen forced the reporter Alan Johnston to stop his car and then took him to an unknown location.
PA security apparatuses declared maximum state of alert in Gaza city and set up road blocks leading out of the city in a bid to find Johnston and arrest his captors.
A spokesman for Hamas Movement which heads the Palestinian government condemned Johnston’s abduction.
“We call on these criminal groups to stop this destruction of our reputation and to let this journalist free” he told the Associated Press.
