Security forces in Gaza located, Thursday evening, the body of Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian member of the anti-Israel International Solidarity Movement (ISM), who had been kidnapped by Salafist Muslims. Hamas officials, who reported that Arrigoni's body had been found, added that the body had been found in an abandoned home in Gaza.
The Tawhid wa'Al-Jihad group had told Hamas to release its jailed members by 5:00 p.m. Friday or it would kill Arrigoni.