Staying Human

A documentary by Al Jazeera about Vittorio Arrigoni, the Italian peace activist whose passion for helping the Palestinian people lead to his death. He moved to Gaza in 2008 to work for the International Solidarity Movement. He was kidnapped and killed by a Salafi group in April 2011. On April 14th 2011, Vittorio Arrigoni was abducted in Gaza. His kidnappers released a video of Arrigoni and demanded the release of Salafists detained by Hamas. The following day Arrigoni was found dead by Hamas security forces in a house in North Gaza.