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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A 72-hour deadline set by a militant group holding two Fox News journalists passed Saturday night with no new information on their fate, but Palestinian officials expressed confidence that the men would be released soon.

The journalists, correspondent Steve Centanni, 60, of Washington, D.C., and cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36, of New Zealand, were seized in Gaza City on Aug. 14. Their captors demanded the release of all Muslims imprisoned by the United States by midnight Saturday in exchange for freeing the journalists.

The kidnappers, with a previously unknown group calling itself the Holy Jihad Brigades, did not say what they would do to the men if the deadline passed with their demands unanswered.

Palestinian officials said they had no evidence that the kidnappers had harmed the men after the deadline passed.

"The group which announced they captured the journalists has done nothing against the journalists after 72 hours," Interior Ministry spokesman Khaled Abu Hilal said. "The ministry has information that the journalists are safe, and the Palestinian security forces are doing their best to secure their release."

Speaking hours before the deadline passed, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas expressed confidence that the ordeal would be resolved soon.

Early today, Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at an armored car belonging to the Reuters news agency, wounding five people, including two cameramen, Palestinian witnesses and hospital officials said.

The Israeli army said it did not realize the car's passengers were journalists and attacked only because the vehicle was driving in a suspicious manner near Israeli troops in the middle of a combat zone.

The Reuters cameraman, Fadel Shama'a, 23, and Sabah Hamida, 25, who worked for a local television company, had the doors open and were about to get out of the armored vehicle when it was struck by the missiles, said Shamas Odeh, chief of Reuters TV in Gaza.

A Hamas militant was killed in a separate airstrike, hospital officials said.