Gazan who killed Italian anti-Israel activist killed in Iraq
November 28, 2015A Palestinian terrorist who was jailed for the 2011 murder in Gaza of an Italian leftist activist has been killed fighting alongside the Islamic State group (ISIS) in Iraq, reports said Saturday.
Jihadist websites and Gaza media said that Mahmud al-Salfiti had escaped prison and fled the Gaza Strip in June to join the jihadist group in Iraq where he “died a martyr” fighting with ISIS.
In April 2011, Vittorio Arrigoni, a 36-year-old member of the violently anti-Israel International Solidarity Movement, was found hanged in an abandoned house north of Gaza City.
A Salafist group had posted a video of him online and threatened to kill him unless the Hamas movement, which rules Gaza, released an unspecified number of their members.
His murder sparked outrage around the world and also among some Palestinians.
Salfiti was later arrested by Hamas, and in 2012 he was sentenced to life in prison by a military court.
The sentence was later reduced to 15 years and he was incarcerated in a Hamas prison.
“Mahmud al-Salfiti, who took part in the death of the heathen Italian Arrigoni and later jailed by Hamas… managed to escape five months ago and emigrate to Islamic State to die a martyr in the battle for Anbar,” a statement on jihadist websites said.
Media in Gaza carried a similar statement and also published a picture of Salfiti.
There were no further details.
Iraqi security forces are battling to regain ground from ISIS jihadists in Anbar province west of Baghdad.
AFP contributed to this report.
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