The standing military court in Gaza city issued on Monday morning different prison sentences against members of an extremist group after it found them guilty of kidnapping and killing the Italian peace activist Vittorio Arrigoni in April last year.
Mahmoud Al-Salfiti, 24, and Tamer Al-Husasna, 26, were found guilty of kidnapping and murdering Arrigoni and each sentenced to life imprisonment and hard labor.
Another member of this group, Khadr Jerim, 26, received a 10-year prison term for kidnapping the Italian, while a fourth, Amer Abu Ghola, 26, was jailed for a year for providing the house in which Arrigoni was found hanged.
Arrigoni, 36, a long-time member of the pro-Palestinian international solidarity movement, was kidnapped on April 14, 2011 in Gaza by Salafist jihadists. The police found his body the other day in a house west of Jabaliya district.
The family of Arrigoni had expressed its willingness to see a fair trial held against the killers of their son and appealed not to condemn them to death.
