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April 15, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/15/us-palestinians-italy-kidnap-idUSTRE73E00A20110415

Italian International Solidarity Movement Activist Murdered in Gaza

(Reuters) Nidal al-Mughrabi - Italian peace campaigner Vittorio Arrigoni, 36, an activist with the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement, was strangled and left in an abandoned house in Gaza following his abduction by militants on Thursday, a Hamas official said on Friday. A Jihadist Salafi group aligned with al-Qaeda had threatened on Thursday to execute Arrigoni unless their leader, arrested by Hamas last month, was freed. A YouTube clip posted by his abductors said: "The Italian hostage entered our land only to spread corruption," and described Italy as "the infidel state."

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