GAZA city, Palestinian territories (AFP)-members of the pro-Palestinians International solidarity movement resumed their activities in Gaza Wednesday, days after the murder of an activist from the group.
Five members of the Organization gathered on a dock in Gaza City to restart work monitoring isrælske the treatment of Palestinian fishermen are seeking to exercise their craft a small strip of ocean off the coast of Gaza.
The checks were carried out often by Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian member of ISM, who was found hanged last Friday, hours after his kidnapping by a radical Islamist Salafist Group.
Activists from Belgium, Italy and the United States, was joined by around 200 Palestinians to ceremony and observed a minute's silence in memory Arrigonis.
Flowers were also sprayed over five ships preparing to take part in the monitoring activity, as people waved Palestinian flags.
Inge Neefs, a member of ISM, said activity had been Arrigonis preferred way to show solidarity with the Palestinians.
"The idea is to have a human rights monitoring boat out in Palestinian water to document potential violations of human rights on the sea," she told AFP.
In the West Bank mourned Palestinian Prime minister Salam Fayyad, in the meantime Arrigonis death at a Conference honouring non-violent protest against Isræls security wall in the village of Bilin.
"Kitten Arrigoni was a wounding blow for us and all international volunteers, but this great participation today assures us that the International solidarity movement is still strong," he said.
"Despite what happened, international solidarity with the us to continue," he added, noting the presence of dozens of foreign representatives at the Conference.
Arrigoni, 36, was a long time member of the International solidarity movement, and had been living and working in the Gaza Strip for much of the last three years.
A previously unknown radical group claimed responsibility for his kidnapping in a video that was posted online and showed Arrigoni, his face bloodied and removal and hands bound behind his back.
The Group demanded Salafist prisoners, including a senior leader of Salafi, and threatened to kill Arrigoni within 30 hours if their demands were not met.
Hamas security forces found his body shortly afterwards, prior to the specified time limit, in an abandoned house in northern Gaza.
Security forces in Gaza have so far arrested three suspects in the case. Another two were killed during a Tuesday raid in central Gaza.
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