Sunday, April 24, 2011

Diary from Israel - Mourning for Livnat and Arrigoni

I was in Nablus in the northern West Bank, only a few days ago and now I learn of the tragedy of last night. Ben Yosef was killed at dawn Livnat, grandson of the Israeli Minister of Culture Limor Livnat. Four other Israelis were wounded. A shot was a Palestinian policeman, the PA has been informed of Tel Aviv.

The policeman, as the statement said Palestinian shot "after noticing suspicious movements." That place, Joseph's Tomb, the PA is under Palestinian administration must give permission to the Jews who come on pilgrimage since the Oslo Accords (1996). In the last period there have been tensions and what happened this morning does not leave any good to think about the future.

Here today is a day of mourning for Vittorio Arrigoni. The funeral of Italian cooperating brutally murdered in Gaza to celebrate Bulciago, in Lombardy, while in Gaza and Ramallah in the West Bank will not miss the celebrations. In Haifa, northern Israel, where I am (that's why today's diary is "Israel"), a group of Italian activists on a visit here is gathered in silence for several minutes in front of the sea in memory of Vik Utopia, as Arrigoni signed.

This morning I met Minem Maroof the Mossawa Center, an organization that deals with the Palestinian minority living in Israel, I will write the next page of the diary. For today and the silence mourning in Israel and Palestine.

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