PLO faction claim responsibility for teacher kidnapping

The PFLP, a small PLO faction, have claimed responsibility for kidnapping two foreign teachers from an American school today as they were driving north of Gaza City.

The PFLP are demanding their imprisoned leader be freed.

The teachers were identified only as Belgian and Dutch. Their car was stopped by unidentified armed men who forced them into their vehicle and drove them to an unknown destination.

The school administration confirmed two faculty members were missing and sent its students home.

About 100 students are enrolled in the elite private school, north of Gaza City.

The kidnappings took place a day after a group of gunmen threatened to abduct foreigners if their demands to be folded into the Palestinian security services were not met.