Palestinian militants have said they have released the three remaining foreigners taken hostage during yesterday's anti-Western violence in Gaza.
The two French and one South Korean, all journalists, were held in response to an Israeli raid on a prison in the West Bank.
They were among nine foreigners taken hostage in Gaza and the West Bank; the others were freed shortly after their capture.
The Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, has cut short a trip to Europe following yesterday's disturbances.
During the violence Israel seized a number of inmates at a high security prison in the West Bank town of Jericho. One of those now in Israeli custody, Ahmed Sadaat, is a prisoner blamed for killing an Israeli minister.
The Israeli raid came shortly after British and American monitors at the prison were withdrawn, sparking anti-Western violence in Gaza.
The US and Britain have denied that they co-ordinated with Israel in their decision to pull out their prison monitors from Jericho ahead of the Israeli army's siege of the jail.
Israel insists that it had good information that a number of men on their most wanted list were about to be released by the Palestinian prison service following the withdrawal of the international monitors for what the Americans and the British said were security fears.
Among those captured by the Israelis were five men said to be involved in the killing of the Israeli Tourism Minister, Rehavam Zeevian, in 2001.
The men, holed up in the Jericho prison, had threatened to fight to the death but they subsequently surrendered and have been taken to an Israeli prison.
The European Union has condemned the Israeli offensive against the prison in Jericho.
