Back فيتوريو أريغوني Arabic فيتوريو اريجونى ARZ Vittorio Arrigoni Catalan Vittorio Arrigoni Czech Vittorio Arrigoni Danish Vittorio Arrigoni German Βιττόριο Αριγκόνι Greek Vittorio Arrigoni Spanish ویتوریو آریگونی Persian Vittorio Arrigoni Finnish
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| Born | 4 February 1975 Besana in Brianza, Italy |
| Died | 15 April 2011 (aged 36) Gaza Strip, Palestine |
| Cause of death | Murdered by Jahafil Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad fi Filastin |
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| Movement | International 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.
- ^ Johnston, Nicole. Vittorio Arrigoni: The man I knew Archived 4 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Al Jazeera. 15 April 2011.
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