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Nicole Johnston | Al Jazeera English There is a packet of pipe tobacco sitting in my Gaza City apartment. It’s Victor’s. He left it behind the last time I saw him, about one month ago. Anyone who knew Italian activist ...
Read More »Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank unite in mourning of slain activist Vittorio Arrigoni
International Solidarity Movement Gaza FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Palestinians across the Gaza strip and the West Bank will join today in mourning slain activist Vittorio Arrigoni. People will gather both in the Al Manara square in Ramallah and at Al Jundi ...
Read More »Man shot with live ammunition during protest for Vittorio
15 April 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Bilin Protester Shot with Live Ammunition by Sniper The protester, a 35 year old resident of the village was hit in his shoulder and foot by 0.22 mm live bullets shot at ...
Read More »Vik: a friend, a brother, a humanist
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza I first heard of Vik before arriving in Gaza. Vik had just been injured by IOF water cannoning which shattered the windows of the fishing boat he was accompanying. Vik had some injuries from the ...
Read More »ISM confirms the death of Vittorio Arrigoni
April 15: Updated with news reports below. The International Solidarity Movement is shocked and deeply saddened by the killing of our friend and colleague Vittorio Arrigoni. Vik was an inspiring activist and generous soul. Please keep his family and friends ...
Read More »Palestinians call for release of Italian activist kidnapped in Gaza
International Solidarity Movement & Free Gaza Movement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (April 14, 2011) – Today, our friend and colleague, Vittorio Arrigoni, a journalist and human rights defender working in the Gaza Strip, was kidnapped in Gaza. Vittorio has been active ...
Read More »Inspired by Egypt, young Palestinians lead movement to end division
Vittorio Arrigoni Translation by Daniela Loffreda. The mighty flow of blood and hope from Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrein, Algeria and Lybia has also washed over young Palestinian minds in Gaza. What started as a stream has become a torrent and ...
Read More »Gaza’s record-breaking children
18 August 2010 | Vittorio Arrigoni, Electronic Intifada Gaza’s kids truly are record-breakers. They survived Israel’s 2008-09 winter invasion and every day they put up with a state of war during a so-called ceasefire. Smeared in blood, they’ve crawled through ...
Read More »Concern grows over flotilla missing and prisoners
Free Gaza Movement & ISM London FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UK, 2pm, Tuesday 1st June International Solidarity Movement volunteers today expressed grave concern over the fate of wounded, imprisoned and missing flotilla activists. The group said, with an information blackout from ...
Read More »Vittorio Arrigoni: In Gaza Hippocrates is dead
Published by Il Manifesto, 10th January 2009. Translated from Italian by Daniela Filippin In Gaza, a firing squad put Hippocrates up against a wall, aimed and fired. The absurd declarations of an Israeli secret services’ spokesman, according to which the ...
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