Vittorio Arrigoni in Gaza (by the NGO International Solidarity Movement website) The body of Vittorio Arrigoni (Read the portrait), the Italian pro-Palestinian activist kidnapped in the Gaza Strip last week by a commando ultra-Salafi extremist, was found in a apartment in Gaza City by Hamas militants at the end of a raid conducted in the middle of the night.
Arrigoni, who lived in Gaza since August 2008, was hanged (other sources suffocated) several hours before the expiry of the ultimatum that the kidnappers had imposed. Maybe just three hours after the kidnapping, claimed in a video on YouTube. The militants threatened to kill 16 to volunteer today if Hamas had not issued their "brethren" detainees.
According to the reconstruction of Yiab Hussein, spokesman for the Interior Ministry of the Hamas government, the surveys taken immediately after the announcement of the kidnapping led to the arrest of two militant Salafis. One of them had brought tonight to the men of Hamas hideout: Qarame an apartment in the neighborhood in Gaza City, the militia Ezzedin al-Qassam Brigades (armed wing of Hamas) over ran within a few minutes, after a brief shootout ended with the capture of a second Salafi.
For Arrigoni, however, "now there was nothing left to do," he said. Arrigoni was the first foreigner to be kidnapped in Gaza (Read 'The strategy of the seizures') after the British BBC journalist Alan Johnston, captured about four years ago by another local group sympathetic to Al Qaida, the Army of Islam , and freed after 114 days of captivity and protracted negotiations groundwater.
According to the sources of international co-operation in Gaza to return the corpse of Victor is not expected before Sunday, when 17 (or maybe Monday 18). The Italian Consulate in Jerusalem has already been activated in preparation for handling the recovery of the body - after the necessary approval of family Arrigoni -, but must await the reopening of Eretz border crossing, between the Strip and Israel: closed rule, without exception every Friday and Saturday until the whole.
The execution of the activity was so close than at the time of the seizure - which took place yesterday morning - that the Ministry has not even had time to activate some humanitarian diplomatic contact. Italian flags and mourning in Gaza. The Palestinian movement have condemned the murder in the streets of the Gaza Strip meanwhile, have appeared in numerous Italian flags, and a tent was set up in the port of Gaza - the point where for the first time Arrigoni has landed - to accommodate those who want to greet him.
Among the visitors, with representatives of the Hamas government and other volunteers, many ordinary people, farmers and fishermen with whom the Italian worked. The Palestinian government has announced the organization of a public funeral. The spokesman Hussein also expressed the willingness of Hamas to "nip now all group members" of the kidnappers and has condemned the killing of Arrigoni, described as "a friend of the Palestinian people." The basis of the crime there would be an attempt to destabilize the situation in the Gaza Strip, according to Hamas, which suggested that among the reasons for the seizure of Arrigoni's will also launch an intimidating signal in anticipation of the arrival of a new fleet of international pro-Palestinian activists.
E 'along the extremist group' Islamic Jihad 'in Gaza, that "this murder is a threat to the Palestinian people. Who ran it did a favor to Israel, which opposes the mission of the Freedom Flotilla 2. For Saeb Erekat, a veteran negotiator and the Palestinian National Authority President Abu Mazen's right hand, Vittorio Arrigoni's assassination in Gaza is "a dark page in Palestinian history." Two of the most famous formations Salafi Gaza Strip, meanwhile, have denied any involvement in the abduction and killing of the Italian volunteer.
"We reiterate, however, that what happened yesterday is the natural consequence of the policy adopted by Hamas against the Salafis in Gaza," the statement said the first of the five formations Salafi considered close to al Qaeda active in Gaza. The second note of the training authority concludes with a warning: "Beware of the lies that are spread out because there is an ongoing conspiracy against us." The reactions from the UK: the pain and outrage of the family consisting of his colleagues "I was very surprised, as well as sorrow, that this was a thing for the work he did there: Vittorio not ever put in situations danger.
" E 'remarks Egidio Beretta, Vittorio Arrigoni's mom and mayor of Bulciago. "I have recently called his friends from Gaza - he added - they told me that Victor is now in a hospital in the area and that many citizens of Gaza are very shaken by the death of Victor." The mother of the Italian volunteer has also directed the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, with a message of condolence: "I learned with shock of the terrible news of the cowardly murder of his son Victor in Gaza.
This barbaric terrorist stirs revulsion in the minds civilians. The whole international community is called upon to reject all forms of violence with renewed determination and seek a negotiated solution to the conflict that has bloodied the region. " Family members and friends of Arrigoni went even thought of writing 'Il Manifesto', the newspaper for which the volunteer had been corresponding from the Strip, the only Italian in Gaza during the operation 'Lead Time' at the end of 2008.
Dismay at the death of the volunteer has also been expressed by many Italian pacifist organizations, gathered today in several demonstrations scattered throughout Italy, where a banner with the words "Hello Vik" - 'Utopia', the nickname Arrigoni - replaced signs which asked: "Vittorio free immediately." The Roman system of solidarity with Palestine, together with other movements, has requested a meeting with the government to go to Gaza next week.
The PD, with Vincenzo Vita, arrived in the gathering of Deputies Piazza in Rome, has announced an immediate parliamentary question. "The silence of the government is one of the contributory causes of this situation," said Loretta Mussi, president of the "Bridge to", "until the last Israeli aggression will not be able to have peace anywhere." For tomorrow, meanwhile, is expected to explain a commemoration of victory in the seat of the Province.
The appointment is expected at around 10.30. Israel pointed the finger at Hamas: "Living with the extremists." The irony about the death of Arrigoni site Debka Israeli intelligence claims that the murder of Arrigoni by the Salafist group al-Jihad al-Tahwir, the largest among those affliati to al-Qaeda in the Palestinian territory, shows that the power of extremists area is growing.
In years past, we read on the site, the group has been strengthened with the arrival of hundreds of terrorists 'experts' from Iraq and Yemen, arrived in the territory ruled by Hamas through the Sinai. According to the website of Israel, despite Hamas wants to give the impression of fighting organizations linked to al-Qaeda, the territory has been instead a climate of "friendly coexistence".
The government, according to Debka's sources, would allow the Salafist groups continue to operate undisturbed, provided that they remain within well defined areas in some suburbs of Khan Youes, Gaza City and Deir Balakh, real areas 'off limits' for anyone not part of the group, including Hamas.
It is not enough. For Debka, both Hamas and the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad men resort to al-Qaeda to conduct attacks against Israeli soldiers patrolling the border with Gaza. Finally, according to the website of Israel, Hamas would be fully involved in the trafficking of weapons to al-Qaeda through Egypt and Sudan.
E Arrigoni's death is "the gratitude classical Arabic," according to the website pro-Israel 'Stop the Ism' which has always opposed the Italian volunteer organization for which he worked. In the past, had already published the photo of Arrigoni, calling it "public enemy number one of Israel." Now, have welcomed the Italian with an ironic: "Goodbye Victoria". 
Arrigoni, who lived in Gaza since August 2008, was hanged (other sources suffocated) several hours before the expiry of the ultimatum that the kidnappers had imposed. Maybe just three hours after the kidnapping, claimed in a video on YouTube. The militants threatened to kill 16 to volunteer today if Hamas had not issued their "brethren" detainees.
According to the reconstruction of Yiab Hussein, spokesman for the Interior Ministry of the Hamas government, the surveys taken immediately after the announcement of the kidnapping led to the arrest of two militant Salafis. One of them had brought tonight to the men of Hamas hideout: Qarame an apartment in the neighborhood in Gaza City, the militia Ezzedin al-Qassam Brigades (armed wing of Hamas) over ran within a few minutes, after a brief shootout ended with the capture of a second Salafi.
For Arrigoni, however, "now there was nothing left to do," he said. Arrigoni was the first foreigner to be kidnapped in Gaza (Read 'The strategy of the seizures') after the British BBC journalist Alan Johnston, captured about four years ago by another local group sympathetic to Al Qaida, the Army of Islam , and freed after 114 days of captivity and protracted negotiations groundwater.
According to the sources of international co-operation in Gaza to return the corpse of Victor is not expected before Sunday, when 17 (or maybe Monday 18). The Italian Consulate in Jerusalem has already been activated in preparation for handling the recovery of the body - after the necessary approval of family Arrigoni -, but must await the reopening of Eretz border crossing, between the Strip and Israel: closed rule, without exception every Friday and Saturday until the whole.
The execution of the activity was so close than at the time of the seizure - which took place yesterday morning - that the Ministry has not even had time to activate some humanitarian diplomatic contact. Italian flags and mourning in Gaza. The Palestinian movement have condemned the murder in the streets of the Gaza Strip meanwhile, have appeared in numerous Italian flags, and a tent was set up in the port of Gaza - the point where for the first time Arrigoni has landed - to accommodate those who want to greet him.
Among the visitors, with representatives of the Hamas government and other volunteers, many ordinary people, farmers and fishermen with whom the Italian worked. The Palestinian government has announced the organization of a public funeral. The spokesman Hussein also expressed the willingness of Hamas to "nip now all group members" of the kidnappers and has condemned the killing of Arrigoni, described as "a friend of the Palestinian people." The basis of the crime there would be an attempt to destabilize the situation in the Gaza Strip, according to Hamas, which suggested that among the reasons for the seizure of Arrigoni's will also launch an intimidating signal in anticipation of the arrival of a new fleet of international pro-Palestinian activists.
E 'along the extremist group' Islamic Jihad 'in Gaza, that "this murder is a threat to the Palestinian people. Who ran it did a favor to Israel, which opposes the mission of the Freedom Flotilla 2. For Saeb Erekat, a veteran negotiator and the Palestinian National Authority President Abu Mazen's right hand, Vittorio Arrigoni's assassination in Gaza is "a dark page in Palestinian history." Two of the most famous formations Salafi Gaza Strip, meanwhile, have denied any involvement in the abduction and killing of the Italian volunteer.
"We reiterate, however, that what happened yesterday is the natural consequence of the policy adopted by Hamas against the Salafis in Gaza," the statement said the first of the five formations Salafi considered close to al Qaeda active in Gaza. The second note of the training authority concludes with a warning: "Beware of the lies that are spread out because there is an ongoing conspiracy against us." The reactions from the UK: the pain and outrage of the family consisting of his colleagues "I was very surprised, as well as sorrow, that this was a thing for the work he did there: Vittorio not ever put in situations danger.
" E 'remarks Egidio Beretta, Vittorio Arrigoni's mom and mayor of Bulciago. "I have recently called his friends from Gaza - he added - they told me that Victor is now in a hospital in the area and that many citizens of Gaza are very shaken by the death of Victor." The mother of the Italian volunteer has also directed the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, with a message of condolence: "I learned with shock of the terrible news of the cowardly murder of his son Victor in Gaza.
This barbaric terrorist stirs revulsion in the minds civilians. The whole international community is called upon to reject all forms of violence with renewed determination and seek a negotiated solution to the conflict that has bloodied the region. " Family members and friends of Arrigoni went even thought of writing 'Il Manifesto', the newspaper for which the volunteer had been corresponding from the Strip, the only Italian in Gaza during the operation 'Lead Time' at the end of 2008.
Dismay at the death of the volunteer has also been expressed by many Italian pacifist organizations, gathered today in several demonstrations scattered throughout Italy, where a banner with the words "Hello Vik" - 'Utopia', the nickname Arrigoni - replaced signs which asked: "Vittorio free immediately." The Roman system of solidarity with Palestine, together with other movements, has requested a meeting with the government to go to Gaza next week.
The PD, with Vincenzo Vita, arrived in the gathering of Deputies Piazza in Rome, has announced an immediate parliamentary question. "The silence of the government is one of the contributory causes of this situation," said Loretta Mussi, president of the "Bridge to", "until the last Israeli aggression will not be able to have peace anywhere." For tomorrow, meanwhile, is expected to explain a commemoration of victory in the seat of the Province.
The appointment is expected at around 10.30. Israel pointed the finger at Hamas: "Living with the extremists." The irony about the death of Arrigoni site Debka Israeli intelligence claims that the murder of Arrigoni by the Salafist group al-Jihad al-Tahwir, the largest among those affliati to al-Qaeda in the Palestinian territory, shows that the power of extremists area is growing.
In years past, we read on the site, the group has been strengthened with the arrival of hundreds of terrorists 'experts' from Iraq and Yemen, arrived in the territory ruled by Hamas through the Sinai. According to the website of Israel, despite Hamas wants to give the impression of fighting organizations linked to al-Qaeda, the territory has been instead a climate of "friendly coexistence".
The government, according to Debka's sources, would allow the Salafist groups continue to operate undisturbed, provided that they remain within well defined areas in some suburbs of Khan Youes, Gaza City and Deir Balakh, real areas 'off limits' for anyone not part of the group, including Hamas.
It is not enough. For Debka, both Hamas and the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad men resort to al-Qaeda to conduct attacks against Israeli soldiers patrolling the border with Gaza. Finally, according to the website of Israel, Hamas would be fully involved in the trafficking of weapons to al-Qaeda through Egypt and Sudan.
E Arrigoni's death is "the gratitude classical Arabic," according to the website pro-Israel 'Stop the Ism' which has always opposed the Italian volunteer organization for which he worked. In the past, had already published the photo of Arrigoni, calling it "public enemy number one of Israel." Now, have welcomed the Italian with an ironic: "Goodbye Victoria".
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