Vittorio Arrigoni

Vittorio Arrigoni
Born(1975-02-04)4 February 1975
Died15 April 2011(2011-04-15) (aged 36)
Gaza Strip, Palestine
Cause of deathMurdered by al-Qaeda affiliates
NationalityItalian
Occupations
  • Activist
  • journalist
  • blogger
MovementInternational Solidarity Movement

Vittorio Arrigoni (Italian pronunciation: [vitˈtɔːrjo arriˈɡoːni]; 4 February 1975 – 15 April 2011) was an Italian journalist and activist.[1][2] 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.

  1. ^ Johnston, Nicole. Vittorio Arrigoni: The man I knew Archived 4 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Al Jazeera. 15 April 2011.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Guardian was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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