Lifeline for Gaza: Berizat did not enter Gaza through our convoys

[ 19/04/2011 - 08:26 AM ]

AMMAN, (PIC)-- The Jordanian committee of "Lifeline for Gaza" aid convoys denied that Abdulrahman Al-Berizat who is accused of killing Italian Vittorio Arrigoni had entered the Gaza Strip through one of its convoys.

Quds Press quoted head of the committee Wa'el Al-Saka as saying that there was no one by that name on any lists of the Lifeline convoys that crossed into Gaza for humanitarian purposes.

Lifeline for Gaza committee is getting prepared to participate in Freedom Flotilla 2 slated to sail for Gaza next month.
Lawyer of the Islamic organizations in Jordan Mussa Al-Abdalat told Quds Press that Berizat, hailing from the Jordanian city of Madaba, was a member of the Lifeline aid convoy which joined the first Freedom Flotilla that was attacked by the Israeli navy last year.
Abdalat said the accused, according to his acquaintances, stayed in Gaza working as a driver for a charity, affirming that Berizat was not known as a supporter of the Salafi trend.
The Palestinian police in Gaza had revealed that one of the men accused of killing Arrigoni was a Jordanian national and published his photo along with the other accomplices.

Gaza bids farewell to slain Arrigoni – video

April 19, 2011 by occupiedpalestine

Hundreds of Vittorio Arrigoni’s friends and supporters escorted his coffin in a final farewell to the 36 year-old peace activist at a ceremony in Rafah.

He is the first foreigner to have been kidnapped and killed in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas, which rules the Palestinian territory, blamed a Salafi group for his murder. It has released the names and pictures of three suspects its searching for.

But as Nicole Johnston reports from Rafah, there are still plenty of unanswered questions – including why Arrogoni was killed hours before the kidnappers’ 30-hour deadline had passed?

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