Ahmad Saadat - 'surrendered'
Sky News and BBC News 24 have both reported in the last few minutes that Ahmad Saadat has surrendered to Israeli forces that have laid siege to a Palestinian prison throughout much of Tuesday. Saadat had earlier said he would not surrender and described the raid on the prison as further efforts by the Israeli authorities to crush the Palestinian people. CNN also broke the news shortly after 17:00 GMT and described the siege as being “all over”. The status of the several kidnapped foreigners is still unclear. Two French citizens, two Australians, a Swiss Red Cross worker, an American and a South Korean were all said to have been held by Palestinian militants following the prison raid. CNN has said the US citizen had been released, BBC News 24 earlier saying that both the Australians and French women had also been released after a short detainment.
As all the prisoners file out from he prison, the recriminations are beginning to fly. Jack Straw, British Foreign Secretary, speaking in Parliament this afternoon, insisted that there had been “no collusion” between the British and the Israeli authorities. He also condemned the violent Palestinian reaction to the raid.
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