Vittorio Arrigoni was abducted and killed on 14 April Shooting has erupted in Gaza where Hamas security forces a trying to arrest suspects in the killing of Italian citizen Vittorio Arrigoni.
The firing began as Hamas police approached a house in the Nuseirat area where two suspects are believed to be staying, eyewitnesses said.
One person has been arrested and two others are surrounded, reports say.
Arrigoni, 36, was abducted last Thursday by Salafist extremists, who reportedly then hanged him.
Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that governs Gaza, condemned the killing of the pro-Palestinian activist in Gaza City as an attack on “the humanity… of the Palestinian people”.
Two arrests were made earlier.
Hamas sealed off parts of the Gaza Strip before Tuesday’s arrest operation.
Reporters for AFP news agency who tried to approach the scene were held back by Hamas policemen as gunfire was heard coming from the direction of the house being raided.
A Beirut-based satellite TV channel sympathetic to Hamas, Al-Quds, reported in a news flash that one suspect in the killing of Arrigoni had been arrested and two others were being besieged.
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