The Jewish Chronicle
On this day: Kate Burton’s Gaza kidnap ordeal
December 31 2005: Kidnapped by the Mujahadeen Brigades
December 31, 2010 08:38
December 31 2005: Kidnapped by the Mujahadeen Brigades
December 31, 2010 08:38On December 28 former LSE student Kate Burton and her parents Hugh and Win were kidnapped in the Gaza Strip by members of the militant group Mujahadeen Brigades armed with automatic rifles. Three days later they were free.
The 24-year-old pro-Palestinian activist from Berkshire, employed by the Palestinian Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights, was giving her parents a tour of Rafah, close to the Egyptian border, when they were taken. The kidnap took place just four months after Israel disengaged from Gaza.
No ransom was paid although the militants had a list of demands for Britain to put pressure on Israel and threatened further kidnaps.
They released a video before letting the group go which showed a gunman with his face concealed next to Ms Burton. Later she told reporters that she had been treated well by her captors but that she could not forgive them.
