Israel’s Secret Plot EXPOSED
Britain’s biggest hunger strike in decades – and the media won’t touch it
CLAMPDOWN: People take part in a demonstration at Parliament SquareTHE Palestine Action hunger strike is on track to become the largest since the 1981 Irish republican protest led by Bobby Sands, yet campaigners say it has faced a “mainstream media blackout.”
So far, seven prisoners have refused food — some for as long as four weeks — with more expected to join.
They are among 33 prisoners who are locked away without trial, over alleged involvement in non-violent actions aimed at blockading arms supply to Israel.
The hunger strikers’ demands are clear. They want Israel’s largest weapons company, Elbit Systems, to cease operating in Britain for good.
They want the ban on Palestine Action, currently designated a terror group, to be lifted. And they are demanding immediate bail and a fair trial — basic democratic rights that should already be guaranteed.
Francesca Nadin, a spokesperson for Prisoners for Palestine, spoke to the Morning Star about their struggle.
Nadin herself was in prison on remand last year, over actions at a Teledyne weapons factory and a Barclays branch in Leeds.
“The fact is that for the charges that they have, which is property damage, people are never usually kept on remand,” she says.
“It’s clear to me that the process is the punishment.”
Four of the strikers — Qesser Zuhrah, Heba Muraisi, Teuta Hoxha and Kamran Ahmed — have been held on remand since last November, far exceeding the six-month pre-trial custody limit.
They are part of the “Filton 24” — inmates held in connection to an action in which activists reportedly drove a repurposed prison van into an Elbit manufacturing hub and dismantled equipment inside.
Qesser, who hasn’t eaten for over four weeks, now feels close to collapse, campaigners report, while Heba, who has also gone more than a month without food is severely fatigued and is finding it increasingly difficult to hold water down.
Teuta and Kamran, who haven’t eaten for 26 and 25 days, were both recently hospitalised.
“As you can imagine now, they’re all very weak”, Nadin says.
“It’s getting to the point of serious deterioration. We are just prepared for something very serious to happen any moment now.”
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UN chief: Israel committed war crimes in Gaza
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday that there was a “fundamental wrong” in Israeli management of its military operation in the Gaza Strip. He added that there are “strong reasons” to believe war crimes have been committed there.
In an interview at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York, Guterres said: “I think there was something fundamentally wrong in the way this operation was conducted with total neglect in relation to the deaths of civilians and to the destruction of Gaza,”
He also stressed that ending the Russian-Ukrainian war should abide by international law and the territorial integrity of states,” adding: “I believe we are still far from a solution.”
Regarding recent US strikes on ships near Venezuela, Guterres said they were not compatible with international law.
Gaza: Hundreds of reports of unexploded bombs as engineering teams work with almost no resources
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Hamas says 114 Palestinians with life sentences stay imprisoned by Israel
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The Prisoners’ Media Office said Wednesday that 114 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences remain in Israeli jails across various governorates, awaiting their release.
In a statement, the Hamas-affiliated office reported that Hebron has the highest number of life-sentence prisoners, with 28 detainees, followed by Nablus with 21, Ramallah with 17, and 16 prisoners who are Palestinian citizens of Israel. Jenin has nine prisoners serving life terms, Tulkarm seven, Bethlehem four, Jericho three, while Qalqilya and Salfit each have two. Three prisoners from occupied Jerusalem and two from the Gaza Strip also remain imprisoned for life.
The office said each of these prisoners carries “a human story of deprivation”, warning that their conditions are deteriorating as a result of the ongoing state of emergency in Israeli prisons and the escalation of beatings and abuse, particularly against life-sentence detainees and leaders of the prisoner movement.
It noted that prior to the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, 608 Palestinians were serving life sentences. Under the “Flood of the Free” deal, implemented in three stages, 503 of them were released, leaving 114 prisoners serving life terms as of December 2025.
Gaza: Hundreds of reports of unexploded bombs as engineering teams work with almost no resources
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Gaza: Hundreds of reports of unexploded bombs as engineering teams work with almost no resources
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The Forensic Evidence and Rapid-Response teams of the Palestinian Police in Gaza handled 252 alerts in November concerning unexploded devices and shells left behind by Israeli attacks across the governorates of the Gaza Strip.
According to the police report, the work forms part of ongoing efforts to remove the danger of suspicious objects and unexploded bombs left in areas from which Israeli forces withdrew after the start of the ceasefire.
The report stated that the items handled included air-dropped bombs of different sizes, artillery shells, guided missiles, landmines, and other heavy explosives.
The rapid-response unit said its teams are operating in harsh conditions with almost no equipment, yet they are doing everything possible to protect civilians.
It stressed the urgent need for international institutions to provide specialised equipment to help remove these threats.
The report added that the huge quantities of explosives dropped on the Strip require joint local and international efforts, particularly given the scale of destruction and the need for heavy machinery to clear the rubble.
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