Vittorio Arrigoni ISM journalist and human rights defender murdered in Gaza on April 14 2011

arabic subtitles in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhnTj1...

Vittorio has been active in the Palestine cause for almost 10 years. For the past two and a half years, he has been in Gaza with the International Solidarity Movement, monitoring human rights violations by Israel, supporting the Palestinian popular resistance against the Israeli occupation and disseminating information about the situation in Gaza to his home country of Italy. He was aboard the siege-breaking voyage in 2008 with the Free Gaza Movement and was incarcerated in Israeli prisons several times. He was in Gaza throughout Israel's brutal assault (Operation Cast Lead), assisting medics and reporting to the world what Israel was doing to the Palestinian people. He has been arrested numerous times by Israeli forces for his participation in Palestinian non-violent resistance in the West Bank and Gaza. His last arrest and deportation from the area was a result of the Israeli confiscation of Palestinian fishing vessels in Gazan territorial waters.

Vittorio frequently writes on the issue of Palestine for the Italian newspaper, IL Manifesto and Peacereporter. Additionally, he maintains a popular blog (http://guerrillaradio.iobloggo.com) and facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vittori...

Khalil Shaheen, a friend of Vittorio and Head of the Economic and Social Rights Department at the Palestinian Center for Human Rights said, "This is outside of our traditions. We are calling for the immediate release of my best friend. Vittorio Arrigoni is a hero of Palestine. He was available everywhere to support all the poor people, the victims. I'm calling on the local authorities here in Gaza, and all security departments, to do their best to guarantee his safety and immediate release."

Vittorio was granted honorary citizenship for his work on promoting the cause of the Palestinian people. Members of Gazan civil society are demanding his release; tomorrow at 4:00pm there will be a mass demonstration in Jundi Square.

For more information, please contact:

Inge Neefs, ISM Gaza, English, 00 972 597 738 436
Silivia Todescini ISM Gaza, Italian 00 972 595 447 660
Nathan Stuckey, ISM Gaza, English, 00 972 597 650 864
Huwaida Arraf, Free Gaza Movement, English & Arabic, 00 972 598 336 215

Adie Nisterooly (close friend of Vittorio's), ISM Gaza, English, 0041799407215

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[Zefiro Torna]

Respect.

[Deivid Madara]

I msulmani sono tanto piu' educati degli italiani che infibulano le donne, cioe' tagliano loro il clitoride, se questa e' educazione.........

[Deivid Madara]

Era un idiota in assoluta buona fede cui i genitori avevano inculcato il culto del marxismo da piccolo:non era colpa sua, lui era fondamentalmente una brava persona ma di corto cervello.

[Deivid Madara]

What's about the Christians in Iraq.Was the Pope bombing Bagdad or were the airplaines of mister Bush, who is protestant?Or the airplanes of Queen Elisabeth who is protestant too?Bush is a terrorist but also Al Qaeda is terroristic organitation and also the muslims kamikaze are terrorist.

[soussasuper]

BEFORE u judge pple at least have a look on their culture ... read their holly book ... have deep analysis then u can judge by urself OTHERWISE u r free 2 belief whatever u want ... & by the way u cant judge religion by the missinterpretation & the actions ov SOME of its followers if u do u will discover that CHRISTIANS r the biggest terrorists all over humankind & history is plenty of examples the last one is what happened in IRAQ

[cmelbouzaidi]

davvero? :( mdr - i don't know how you say "you're a real tool" in italian, my is getting rusty.. one last thing, era in italia che ho conosciuto l'islam, quando ero una giovane ragazza, ho capito che i musulmani sono piu educati che gli italiani. niente contro vittorio, pero' :) pace amico ;)

[marioarmentario]

Non sono d'accordoche fosse una brava persona.Per me una brava persona e' colui che fa del bene seguendo i principi di liberta', di democrazia. Deve saper distinguere tra una dittatura che uccide le liberta' e una democrazia. Arrigoni ha supportato una dittatura religiosa che intende massacrare gli israeliani. O era un idiota o una persona piena d'odio verso Israele. Negli anni 30 c'erano tanti utili idioti che supportavano le "giuste" rivendicazioni di Hitler.

[Deivid Madara]

Ma pirla sarai tu brutto arabo terrorista e assassino, venuto in Italia a rompere le palle alla gente.Perche' non torni nella fogna da cui provieni?

[Deivid Madara]

Troppi purtoppo molti dei quali come Vittorio brave persone in assoluta buona fede ma ottuse dall'ideologia: mi faceva sorridere nei suoi video quando definiva fascista tutto cio' che non collimava coi suoi ideali, in un video definiva fascista lo stato ebraico: caro Vittorio i fascisti furono coloro che nel 1938 fecero le leggi razziali contro gli ebrei, come puo' la stato di Israele essere fascista?E' persino vietato dalla costituzione israeliana la fondazione di partiti nazi fascisti.

[Deivid Madara]

Amico un cazzo, io non voglio amici musulmani.