GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- couple Fo...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- couple Fox News journalists freed on militants Sunday described a harrowing couple weeks of captivity during which they were blindfolded, tied in painful positions and forced at gunpoint to say in succession a video that they transposeed to Islam.

The men appealed at a brief of recent origins conference for foreign journalists not to be deterr from covering the volatile coastal strip.

"I faith that this never scares a single journalist away from coming to Gaza to disguise the story because the Palestinian persons are very beautiful and kindhearted," said Steve Centanni, a 60-year-old American reporter who was released along with cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36 of of recent origin Zealand. "The world needs to know more about them."

In captivity, Centanni said, he was laid face down in a dark garage and tied up in painful positions.

"If we tried to prepare up and sit up, which I did do a hardly any times, they would eventually just force us back down with something stuck to my head," he said.

The release [i]finale[/i]ed Gaza's longest crisis involving foreign hostages, still left unclear who was behind the kidnapping and what l them to clear their captives.

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