Suspects in Italian Vittorio Arrigoni’s murder killed in HAMAS raid
Red on Red
TWO suspects in the murder of an Italian pro-Palestinian activist in Gaza were killed yesterday and a third captured when Hamas security men stormed a house in a Gaza refugee camp.
One of the suspects, a Jordanian named Abdel Rahman al-Braizat, shot himself in the head after throwing a grenade at his two accomplices, killing one and wounding the other, Hamas said.
The three are believed responsible for the murder last week of Vittorio Arrigoni, whom they had seized and offered to exchange for the group’s leader, Hisham al-Saidini, who has been in Hamas custody since January. Security officials said they killed Arrigoni long before the deadline expired.
The three had barricaded themselves in a building in the Nuseirat refugee camp and refused to surrender. Saidini was brought to the scene in an attempt to persuade the men to give themselves up. Instead, they fired at the security men, wounding several.