UPDATED ON:THURSDAY, JULY 05, 20073:22
MECCA TIME, 0:22 GMT
The head of the clan linked to the kidnapping of Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist, has criticised the outcry over his abduction saying it exposes double standards on the part of the international community.
Sheikh Saleh Dughmush, the head of the Dughmush clan, told Al Jazeera's Rageh Omaar:Johnston praised Hamas for winning his freedom.
"The Israelis arrest people left, right and centre, using the excuse of terrorism.
"When one Westerner seems to be under threat, the whole world stops and pays attention."
"If it hadn't been for that real serious Hamas pressure, that commitment to tidying up Gaza's many, many security problems, then I might have been in that room for a lot longer," he told a news conference
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