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Thousands of Gazans participate in slain Italian activist’s funeral
19 April 2011 | Palestine News Network On Monday, politicians, NGO workers, and activists took part in the funeral of Vittorio Arrigoni who was killed last Friday by a Salafist group in Gaza. Palestinian police officers carried Arrigoni’s coffin and marched in the funeral. Those in attendance carried his picture and, in reference to his killers, chanted, “death for terrorists!” According to Palestinian security sources, the body of Arrigoni was transported from Gaza City to Rafah,…
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Views from the Jordan Valley
19 April 2011 | Jack Curry The cluster of Jordan Valley villages located around Fasayil offer a twisted microcosm of the fickle barbarity of Israel’s illegal occupation. Families who seemingly share land, live side by side with no separation except the invisible borders enshrined in Israel’s military law. Yet, as you tread amongst the stones between the close lying villages it is clear where the limited rights afforded to Palestinians ends and the increased terror of…
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Vittorio, never more alive than now
Egidia Beretta Arrigoni, Mother of Vittorio Arigoni | Il Manifesto Translated by Sebastiao Nascimento. Italiana segue. One has to die to become a hero, to hit the headlines and to have TV crews around the house, but does one have to die to stay human? I recall Vittorio in the Christmas of 2005, detained and incarcerated in the Ben Gurion Airport, the scars left by the handcuffs that cut his wrists, the denial of any contact…



