Gaza factions go on kidnapping spree | Jerusalem Post

Gaza factions go on kidnapping spree | Jerusalem Post: "Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to travel to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday for the first time since the outbreak of the latest cycle of violence in the Palestinian territories, PA officials said on Monday.

On the eve of his visit, Hamas gunmen kidnapped former PA minister for prisoners affairs Sufyan Abu Zaidah of Fatah. Abu Zaidah's son, Basel, said the kidnappers seized his father in the northern Gaza Strip while he was on the way to visit the family of a Fatah activist shot earlier in the day by Hamas members.

Abu Zaidah was released after intensive negotiations, as were at least eight other Fatah and Hamas members kidnapped by either side during the day's fighting." Read complete post here.