Kidnapped in Gaza is a fast moving mystery set in Israel and Gaza. The hero is Richard Ireton, the Jerusalem bureau leader for Epoch journal, an American weekly newsmagazine. he's eyewitness initially of the tale to a capturing incident within the West financial institution regarding Israeli squaddies and Palestinian hillside snipers. On his go back to Jerusalem he discovers that Jerusalem-based British newshounds are delivering credibility in a British newspaper and at the BBC to Palestinian allegations of an Israeli cold-blooded homicide of the captured Palestinian shooters. The resource for this tale is an Abdul Husseini, senior consultant of a Jerusalem-based Palestinian human rights organization.

via his Israeli landlady, Ireton has a chance to interview in a personal surroundings an Israeli soldier who was once current on the taking pictures scene to which Ireton was once an eyewitness. The soldier occurs to be the landlady’s nephew and the Hebrew-English interpreter at this assembly is the soldier’s sister, Rayna Shanach, a strikingly appealing younger Israeli girl who seems to be a captain in Israeli army intelligence.

Rayna allows for Ireton to scrutinize army intelligence records that throw doubt at the atrocity tale not just as the alleged eye-witness, a Palestinian school-teacher referred to as al-Jaffar, has a history of past arrests yet simply because Abdul Husseini has transparent connections with the Muslim Brotherhood, the middle association at the back of the Palestinian move Hamas, which ideas Gaza.

The school-teacher al-Jaffar, in the meantime, has long gone to floor in Gaza out of fears that Israeli professionals may succeed in him and reason him to alter his tale. Ireton, figuring out he takes a danger, makes a decision to force to Gaza and notice if he can meet with al-Jaffar via connections in Hamas. while Ireton arrives on the Hamas inside Ministry with a view to receive an interview with the school-teacher, he discovers an previous pal from China, a researcher-spy known as Yao whom Ireton met in a prior event in China, has additionally been invited to sit with al-Jaffar. Ireton/Yao via wondering make it transparent they don’t think al-Jaffar’s story.

Leaving the development after the interview, Ireton is abducted after unknown assailants block the auto within which he's touring. He results in a makeshift basement mobile of a personal place of dwelling in Gaza. His captors say they belong to a hitherto unknown association, the fans of the Caliph. the gang forces Ireton at gunpoint to make a video threatening that they're going to commence murdering international diplomats residing in Israel except the international locations they characterize bring to an end diplomatic kin with Israel. A time limit is given for this to begin taking place, failing which Ireton should be achieved and the assassination of foreigners in Israel will begin.

Ireton’s whereabouts in captivity, even though, are recognized to Israeli intelligence although a GPS chip that Rayna prepared to be put in in an ornate leather-based belt that Ireton obtained in the course of a dinner assembly with Rayna. The Israeli executive is deeply apprehensive that the chance to overseas diplomats residing within the state may heavily threaten the country’s foreign defense. It hence prioritizes a unique Forces rescue workforce to find Ireton and get him out of Gaza. The rescue is dramatic and fraught with probability. yet one other, own danger has, in the meantime, been confronting Ireton: His long-time Filipina female friend Trish is traveling the rustic as a vacationer. Ireton is torn among loyalty to her and fascination with Rayna. After the rescue, although, Ireton apologizes to Rayna for flirting together with her, is reunited with Trish and has a superb snicker with Yao, who's now again in Jerusalem.