Vigils were held in the Occupied Territories over the weekend for the slain peace activist Vittorio Arrigoni. A native of Italy, Arrigoni was killed last week after his capture by extremist Palestinian militants. Arrigoni was a member of the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian-led movement that uses nonviolent and direct action methods to oppose the Israeli occupation. He had lived in Gaza since 2008 after arriving on a boat carrying humanitarian aid. A friend of Arrigoni’s remembered him in Gaza.

Silvia Todeschini: “Vittorio was here for the Palestinian people, and they killed somebody who was here for them. And, I mean, we can see — we can see really clearly that the most of the Palestinian people, the civil society, is with us.”

The Hamas-led government in Gaza has arrested two suspects.