Hundreds of Palestinians have attended a funeral ceremony in memory of pro-Palestinian Italian pacifist Vittorio Arrigoni, who was killed last week by a group sympathetic to the terrorist network Al Qaeda. "Vittorio, Vittorio," the congregation chanted the passage of the coffin with the remains of the Italian activist, covered by a Palestinian flag.
The body has been moved from a morgue until an ambulance to take the corpse to the border with Egypt, where it will be repatriated to Italy. On Sunday, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh announced a cash reward for members of the security forces to arrest those responsible. Moreover, Haniyeh announced a state funeral for Arrigoni.
Arrigoni was kidnapped in Gaza City shortly thereafter and showed a video that requires the release of several militant jihadists within 30 hours beginning at 11.00 am on Thursday. Italian activist was found hanged in an abandoned house on the outskirts of the city on Friday morning, hours before the deadline given by the kidnappers themselves.
This Monday the Executive Force, the Hamas government police in Gaza Strip, has released photographs of four men allegedly responsible for the kidnapping and murder of the activist. "We have great information. I think we are not far to catch the murderers in the short term (...). We have all the information, "said a Hamas government spokesman Ghazi Hamad.
The mother of peace, Egidio Beretta, has rejected Arrigoni's body be repatriated by Israel despite appeals from Israeli personalities." Israel did not like him when he was alive and not have it now he's dead, "said Beretta told the Italian news agency AGI. Arrigoni arrived in Gaza in the summer of 2008 on the first ship that arrived in the Palestinian enclave with international assistance despite the Israeli blockade and lived in the area since then.
After learning of her kidnapping and murder prominent Israeli personalities had advocated repatriating his body through Israel as a gesture of reconciliation to not convert "their final journey in a symbol of hatred and rejection to those who considered his enemies "in the words of Israeli writer Etgar Keret. 
The body has been moved from a morgue until an ambulance to take the corpse to the border with Egypt, where it will be repatriated to Italy. On Sunday, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh announced a cash reward for members of the security forces to arrest those responsible. Moreover, Haniyeh announced a state funeral for Arrigoni.
Arrigoni was kidnapped in Gaza City shortly thereafter and showed a video that requires the release of several militant jihadists within 30 hours beginning at 11.00 am on Thursday. Italian activist was found hanged in an abandoned house on the outskirts of the city on Friday morning, hours before the deadline given by the kidnappers themselves.
This Monday the Executive Force, the Hamas government police in Gaza Strip, has released photographs of four men allegedly responsible for the kidnapping and murder of the activist. "We have great information. I think we are not far to catch the murderers in the short term (...). We have all the information, "said a Hamas government spokesman Ghazi Hamad.
The mother of peace, Egidio Beretta, has rejected Arrigoni's body be repatriated by Israel despite appeals from Israeli personalities." Israel did not like him when he was alive and not have it now he's dead, "said Beretta told the Italian news agency AGI. Arrigoni arrived in Gaza in the summer of 2008 on the first ship that arrived in the Palestinian enclave with international assistance despite the Israeli blockade and lived in the area since then.
After learning of her kidnapping and murder prominent Israeli personalities had advocated repatriating his body through Israel as a gesture of reconciliation to not convert "their final journey in a symbol of hatred and rejection to those who considered his enemies "in the words of Israeli writer Etgar Keret.
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