Palestinian gunmen freed an producer for CNN television unharmed this evening a day after kidnapping him in the Gaza Strip.
Mr Riad Ali said his captors told him they were members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant group in Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement.
But the Brigades issued a statement saying they had no connection to the abduction, and condemning it as an act of chaos that hurt the Palestinian cause.
Mr Ali's abduction attests to worsening chaos in Gaza's streets presided over by various militant groups and armed gangs.
Israel's Channel 2 quoted Mr Ali, who was seized while on assignment in Gaza with a CNN International correspondent, as saying the abductors had determined he had no links with Druze units in Israel's army and border police.
CNN's Web site said that in a videotape recorded while he was in captivity, Mr Ali called on the Druze, an Arabic- speaking minority in Israel, not to serve in Israel's military, saying the cause of the Druze was the same as that of the Palestinians.
The kidnappers did not identify themselves or make any public demands.