Two foreigners were kidnapped by unknown gunmen in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Palestinian security sources said.

Militants abducted a Polish couple as they were driving in one of the main streets in Gaza City and took them to an unknown place, the sources said.

The sources identified the two as Walid Kanan, a Palestinian with Polish citizenship and his wife Barbra, a Polish woman that works for a Gaza mental health program.

No one claimed responsibility for the abduction.

The kidnapping came amid a worldwide Muslim protest over publications of cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammad, which was originally printed in a Danish newspaper in September last year and reprinted by other European newspapers.

Palestinian militants threatened on Thursday to kidnap Europeans in protest against publishing the cartoons. A German national was briefly kidnapped and released on Thursday in the West Bank city of Nablus.

Militants also stormed on Thursday the European Union headquarters in Gaza City and shut it down.

Unconfirmed reports said a third foreigner was abducted in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, but more details were not available.

Source: Xinhua