A Beautiful Soul, a Big Heart - Video
Italian Peace Activist Vittorio Arrigoni Slain by Militant Captors in Gaza Strip.
The body of 36-year-old Italian peace activist Vittorio Arrigoni was found in Gaza shortly after his captors posted video of him blindfolded and bloodied. They had vowed to execute him unless their group’s leader was freed from custody by Gaza’s Hamas-led government. 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. We speak to Huwaida Arraf, a friend of Vittorio’s and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement.
HUWAIDA ARRAF: We are still piecing together the information. It was late yesterday when we discovered that Vittorio was indeed being held captive. It was—we had suspected that something was wrong, because we hadn’t heard from him in a while. And then the video popped up on the internet, showing him bound and blindfolded, with his face a little bit swollen and bloodied. [...] All I know and all I could say is that Vittorio has one of the most beautiful souls, big heart, of anybody I’ve ever had the honor of meeting. And his killing is truly a loss for—you know, not just for those of us who knew him, but for all of Palestine.
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