  {"id":207155,"date":"2005-08-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=207155"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:19:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:19:32","slug":"auto-insert-207155","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-207155\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidnapped staff safely released &#8211; UNRWA press release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<strong><u>Kidnapped Staff Safely Released<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">August 8, 2005 &#8211; This morning, at 11:50am, a militant group kidnapped three United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) staff members, one British national, one Swiss national and one Palestinian, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Following negotiations, the staff members were released into UNRWA and Palestinian Authority Preventive Security custody.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The staff members have now returned safely to UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City. Access through Abu Houli checkpoint, which was closed, was provided by the Israeli Defense Forces.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i>For information only<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i>Not an official document<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i>For more information contact: Gina Benevento 0599-428008<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kidnapped Staff Safely Released August 8, 2005 &#8211; This morning, at 11:50am, a militant group kidnapped three United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) staff members, one British national, one Swiss national and one Palestinian, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. 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