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Monday Sept. 17, 2012 1:44 PM (EST+7)
Gaza court convicts 4 for Italian activist's murder
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GAZA, Sept 17 (Nidal al-Mughrabi/Reuters) - A Gaza military court convicted four Palestinians on Monday for kidnapping and murdering an Italian man in 2011, a case that shocked Palestinian sympathizers around the world.
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 The Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni, arriving in Gaza in 2008 by boat. Arrigoni was killed in the Gaza Strip by radical Palestinians on April 15, 2011.
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Multimedia
 ISM Activist, Bianca Zammit, shot while filming in Gaza
April 26, 2010 5:14 PM (EST+7)
British MP condemns Gaza war
Jan. 16, 2010 12:19 PM (EST+7)
al-Jazeera Int: Gunmen attack Gaza summer camp
May 24, 2010 9:10 AM (EST+7)
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 Documents
 Hamas Rule in Gaza: Three Years On
Fateh and Hamas Reconciliation Agreement, May 4 2011
Gisha - Who Turned out the Lights in Gaza?
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Publications
Poll No. 65, October 2008 - Palestinians’ opinions on the 15th anniversary of the Oslo agreement
Poll No. 69 Part 1, October 2009 - Palestinian opinions on the Goldstone report and the upcoming elections
Poll No. 70, April 2010 - Governance and US policy
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Background
Hamas-Fateh conflict
Cairo talks
Civil society (Palestinian)
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Resources
“Suicide and Other Bombing Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles (Sept 1993),” Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“The calm before the storm?” al-Ahram Weekly, 24 March 2005
“The Gaza Bombshell,” Vanity Fair, April 2008
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Vittorio Arrigoni, a pro-Palestinian activist, was abducted by a Jihadist Salafi faction, which shares the radical ideology of al Qaeda and is a rival of the Hamas Islamist movement that controls the Gaza Strip.
The group had hoped to force Hamas to release a Salafist leader, Hisham al-Saidni. Hamas police said the kidnappers killed Arrigoni before a deadline they had set for Saidni's release had expired.
Arrigoni's killing horrified international pro-Palestinian activists and tested Hamas's authority in the enclave, which it seized from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's allies in a brief civil war in 2007.
Saidni was recently freed without charge after pledging not to disturb public order, Hamas said.
There was no immediate reaction from Jihadist Salafi groups that have accused Hamas security forces of arresting nearly 40 of their men, some for firing rockets against Israel.
Three of the defendants were identified by the Hamas-run court as Hamas security men who had been working for the Salafi group for ideological reasons. Two received life sentences and one was jailed for 10 years. The men flashed defiant smiles as the sentences were handed down.
The fourth man, a fisherman, fled Gaza after the killing and was sentenced in absentia to 12 months. Two other men were killed in a gun battle with Hamas forces trying to rescue Arrigoni.
"They will find justice with God and not with this court," a relative of the one of the defendants muttered.
Lawyers said Arrigoni's family had written to the court to oppose imposing the death penalty. (Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
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The Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni, arriving in Gaza in 2008 by boat. Arrigoni was killed in the Gaza Strip by radical Palestinians on April 15, 2011.
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