The body of Italian aid worker kidnapped in Gaza has been found in an abandoned house in the strip, said a source in the Hamas security services to the agency. A radical Islamist group had announced a few hours before the kidnapping of Vittorio Arrigoni, a member of the International Solidarity Movement, a pro-Palestinian NGOs, and had said he would assassinate him today at ten o'clock local time (eleven, Spanish CET) If the Hamas government did not release several detainees.
The group hung some pictures posted on YouTube in which they go to an Italian citizen, blindfolded and hands tied behind his back apparently, and captions. The captor group is not identified in the video, but is aligned with the flow of Salafi extremism. Arrigoni accused of spreading "Western vices", the Italian Government to fight the Muslims and Hamas, the Islamist group that dominates Gaza, to oppose the sharia, Muslim religious law.
According to two suspects have been arrested for the crime, and Hamas security forces searching for two others. The kidnapping was the first in the strip since 2007, when the BBC journalist Alan Johnston spent four months in captivity of the radical Army of Islam. In Italy, the news opened yesterday afternoon all of the websites and news programs.
Arrigoni was a volunteer and human rights activist who collaborated with several Italian media reporting from Gaza, where he arrived in 2008, coinciding with the Israeli operation Cast Lead. He was special envoy of the communist daily Il Manifesto and had a blog that had the situation in Gaza and became a book entitled Restiamo umani (Let human being).
The video of the hijackers and the Facebook page Arrigoni have received thousands of messages of support visits. Though not a professional journalist, Vittorio Arrigoni was made famous in Italy for his book of the attack the Israeli army against Palestinian civilians. Italy currently has another of its citizens kidnapped.
This is Sandra Mariani, a volunteer who was allegedly captured Tuscan in the Maghreb and Al Qaeda, and that there is no news since 18 February. 
The group hung some pictures posted on YouTube in which they go to an Italian citizen, blindfolded and hands tied behind his back apparently, and captions. The captor group is not identified in the video, but is aligned with the flow of Salafi extremism. Arrigoni accused of spreading "Western vices", the Italian Government to fight the Muslims and Hamas, the Islamist group that dominates Gaza, to oppose the sharia, Muslim religious law.
According to two suspects have been arrested for the crime, and Hamas security forces searching for two others. The kidnapping was the first in the strip since 2007, when the BBC journalist Alan Johnston spent four months in captivity of the radical Army of Islam. In Italy, the news opened yesterday afternoon all of the websites and news programs.
Arrigoni was a volunteer and human rights activist who collaborated with several Italian media reporting from Gaza, where he arrived in 2008, coinciding with the Israeli operation Cast Lead. He was special envoy of the communist daily Il Manifesto and had a blog that had the situation in Gaza and became a book entitled Restiamo umani (Let human being).
The video of the hijackers and the Facebook page Arrigoni have received thousands of messages of support visits. Though not a professional journalist, Vittorio Arrigoni was made famous in Italy for his book of the attack the Israeli army against Palestinian civilians. Italy currently has another of its citizens kidnapped.
This is Sandra Mariani, a volunteer who was allegedly captured Tuscan in the Maghreb and Al Qaeda, and that there is no news since 18 February.
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