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April 18, 2011

Slain Italian Peace Activist Honored in Occupied Territories 
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Vigils were held in the Occupied Territories over the weekend for the
slain peace activist Vittorio Arrigoni. A native of Italy, Arrigoni was
killed last week after his capture by extremist Palestinian militants.
Arrigoni was a member of the International Solidarity Movement, a
Palestinian-led movement that uses nonviolent and direct action methods
to oppose the Israeli occupation. He had lived in Gaza since 2008 after
arriving on a boat carrying humanitarian aid. A friend of Arrigoni's
remembered him in Gaza.

Silvia Todeschini: "Vittorio was here for the Palestinian people, and
they killed somebody who was here for them. And, I mean, we can
see—we can see really clearly that the most of the Palestinian
people, the civil society, is with us."

The Hamas-led government in Gaza has arrested two suspects.



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