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Vittorio Arrigoni (4 February 1975 – 15 April 2011) was an Italian reporter, writer, pacifist and activist.1Arrigoni worked with the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in the Gaza Strip , from 2008 until his death. Arrigoni maintained a website, Guerrilla Radio , and published a book of his experiences in Gaza during the 2008–09 Gaza War between Hamas and Israel . Arrigoni was the first foreigner kidnapped in Gaza since BBC journalist Alan Johnston 's abduction in 2007. The murder was condemned by various Palestinian factions.2A Hamas court in Gaza convicted four Salafist extremists on charges of kidnapping and murdering Arrigoni in September 2012. Mahmoud al-Salfiti, 28, and Tamer al-Hasasna, 27, were sentenced to life imprisonment, with hard labour. On 19 February 2013 a Gaza military court reduced the sentences of the two from life to 15 years. "We asked in our appeal for the conviction for murder and abduction to be dropped to only abduction," their lawyer Mohammed Zaqut said. 24-year-old Khader Jram was given a 10-year sentence. Amer Abu Ghouleh, 23, was given a prison term of one year for sheltering fugitives.3Vittorio Arrigoni: The man I knew .4
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Vittorio Arrigoni ( ; 4 February 1975 – 15 April 2011) was an Italian reporter, writer , pacifist and activist . Arrigoni worked with the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in the Gaza Strip , from 2008 until his death. Arrigoni maintained a website, Guerrilla Radio , and published a book of his experiences in Gaza during the 2008–09 Gaza War between Hamas and Israel . Arrigoni was the first foreigner kidnapped in Gaza since BBC journalist Alan Johnston 's abduction in 2007. He was subsequently killed by Palestinian Salafists.His murder was condemned by various Palestinian groups. Vittorio Arrigoni: The man I knew .
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Italian journalist and peace activist (1975–2011) Vittorio Arrigoni ( ; 4 February 1975 – 15 April 2011) was an Italian reporter, writer , pacifist and activist . Arrigoni worked with the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in the Gaza Strip , from 2008 until his death. Arrigoni maintained a website, Guerrilla Radio , and published a book of his experiences in Gaza during the 2008–09 Gaza War between Hamas and Israel . Arrigoni was the first foreigner kidnapped in Gaza since BBC journalist Alan Johnston 's abduction in 2007. He was subsequently killed by Palestinian Salafists. His murder was condemned by various Palestinian groups.
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Italian journalist and peace activist (1975–2011) Vittorio Arrigoni ( Italian: [vitˈtɔːrjo arriˈɡoːni] ; 4 February 1975 – 15 April 2011) was an Italian journalist and activist.He worked with the Palestinian-led International Solidarity Movement (ISM), through which he arrived in the Gaza Strip in 2008.He maintained a website called Guerrilla Radio and also published a book about his experiences in Gaza City during the 2008–2009 Gaza War between Hamas and Israel .In 2011, he was abducted and murdered by a group of Salafi jihadists .The Hamas government , which identified the perpetrators as Palestinian and Jordanian affiliates of al-Qaeda , subsequently initiated a manhunt and arrested the accused suspects during a raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp .Arrigoni was the first foreign national to have been involved in such an incident in the Gaza Strip since the kidnapping of British journalist Alan Johnston in 2007.
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