Palestine Action detainees mark 51 days of open hunger strike

LONDON, Dec. 23 (YPA) – Six British detainees from the “Palestine Action” Group have continued an open-ended hunger strike for the 51st straight day, amid medical warnings of a serious deterioration in their health conditions that could lead to death.

According to British official sources, the families of the detainees and human rights groups, a number of them have been hospitalized since the strike began on November 2, including ammo Gibb, Caesar Zahra, and Kamron Ahmed, whose family said that his condition “exceeded the emergency point.”

The families of the detainees called on the British government for urgent humanitarian intervention.

The strikers are being held in various prisons in England, demanding immediate release on bail, lifting the restrictions on them, revoking the classification of “Palestine Action” as a terrorist group, ensuring a fair trial, in addition to closing the factories of the Israeli company Elbit Systems in Britain.

The detainees face charges related to protest actions targeting facilities linked to Israeli occupation, including the Elbit Systems factory and the RAF Brize Norton base, with their trials scheduled to begin between 2026 and 2027, despite British law setting a six-month maximum for pretrial detention.

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