mohamadeans refuse to release 19 year old soldier

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- A Palestinian militant leader said Tuesday a captured Israeli soldier was being held in a "secure place," and he claimed that his group also seized a Jewish settler in the West Bank.

Meanwhile, the rival Hamas and Fatah movements agreed on a plan implicitly recognizing Israel, a top Palestinian official said after weeks of acrimonious negotiations aiming to lift crippling international aid sanctions.

The new claims about captive Israelis came from the Popular Resistance Committees, a violent group with close ties to the Hamas-led Palestinian government. The PRC was one of three groups that took part in Sunday's cross-border infiltration near Gaza in which militants killed two Israeli soldiers and abducted Cp. Gilad Shalit.