(Reuters) Nidal al-Mughrabi - Italian peace campaigner Vittorio Arrigoni, 36, an activist with the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement, was strangled and left in an abandoned house in Gaza following his abduction by militants on Thursday, a Hamas official said on Friday. A Jihadist Salafi group aligned with al-Qaeda had threatened on Thursday to execute Arrigoni unless their leader, arrested by Hamas last month, was freed. A YouTube clip posted by his abductors said: "The Italian hostage entered our land only to spread corruption," and described Italy as "the infidel state."
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