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Hope for journalist

Katharine Viner

London: Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent who was seized more than two months ago in Gaza, is healthy and unharmed and efforts to release him are ``continuous'', said a Hamas member of the Palestinian Government. Ghazi Hamad, Government spokesman, said he knew the group holding Mr. Johnston and added that he was dealing with them to secure the correspondent's release. "It is a small group which is holding Alan,'' he told an audience at the Guardian Hay literary festival in England. He reiterated that the Islamic Army group is seeking the release of Abu Qatada, a radical cleric in jail in Britain awaiting deportation to Jordan for alleged terrorist offences.

- Guardian Newspapers Limited 2007

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