day boycott on reporting any government activities. No group has claimed responsibility for his abduction, but Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he was confident that Johnston is alive and will be released soon. Johnston is the only Western journalist who lives and works in Gaza, according to the BBC. Other journalists chose to live in Israel and come into Palestine to do their stories. According to Reporters Without Borders, 14 foreign journalists have been kidnapped in the Gaza Strip since August 2005. Johnston s captivity is the longest a journalist has ever been held in the Palestinian territories.
