"I proceed from a partisan family - my grandfathers fought and died struggling against an occupation."

Footage here on the life of Vittorio Arrigoni, who has been murdered in Gaza, supposedly by Salafists, who was a member of the International Solidarity Movement and who went to Gaza to support the rights of the Palestinian people. Vittorio, as he says himself, came from a partisan family in Italy and was unable to watch the suffering of the Palestinians without acting. He was on one of the first boats into Gaza in 2009.

He joins a long list of international activists who have died trying to assist the Palestinian people and oppose their oppression by a brutal regime. The pictures of the Israeli snipers firing on the farmers harvesting their crops are truly shocking. I have been invited to write a short piece for the Jewish Socialist magazine about where the Green Party stands on these issues. I salute Vittorio and all those brave people who have been involved in the campaigns to support the Palestinian people.