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🇮🇹🇵🇸 An Italian journalist named Vittorio Arrigoni arrived in Gaza as part of the "Free Gaza" flotilla in 2008. He was widely recognized and revered for his selfless service to help needy people in the Gaza Strip and for his signature sign-off, "Restiamo umani" (Stay Human). During the 2008–2009 Gaza War (Operation Cast Lead), he was one of the very few foreign reporters who chose to stay in Gaza. Despite his best intentions toward Palestinians, he was abducted at gunpoint by a radical extremist Salafi jihadist group which opposed Hamas for "being too moderate" and not Islamist enough. The Islamist group published a YouTube video showing Arrigoni and offering his life in exchange for their own leader imprisoned by Hamas. Hamas refused to comply with its rival Islamist group and later discovered Arrigoni's deceased body hanging by its neck. Arrigoni still remains a revered figure among pro-Palestine activists, despite being called "Kafir" (infidel) by Gazan extremists. This incident has seemingly had no effect on the naive Western activists who still organize Gaza flotillas to illegally enter Gaza, among whom are Greta Thunberg and the rest of the radical left-wing figures. The selfless sympathy of the western left-wing towards violent Islamists needs to be studied.