Deputy Cabinet minister from Hamas kidnapped by Fatah gunmen, Hamas says

Fatah gunmen kidnapped a deputy Cabinet minister from Hamas on Tuesday, in response to Hamas attacks on Fatah strongholds in Gaza. The fate of Deputy Transportation Minister Faidi Shabaneh, 46, was not known.

Members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a violent Fatah offshoot, said Shabaneh was not harmed, denying claims on Hamas Web sites that he had been killed by his captors.  (AP)