location: Rafah
notes: Gunmen in Egypt boarded a bus carrying Palestinians from Cairo to Gaza and seized four of the passengers before letting the others continue. The kidnapping took place on Wednesday in the northern Sinai region as the bus headed for the Rafah border crossing into Gaza. The assailants reportedly held laptop computers on which they checked passengers names before separating the four from the group and taking them away. The individuals taken were members of the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas.
target_text: location: Rafah, fatalities: 0