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Palestine Action: Aggravated Burglary Charges Dropped Against 18 Defendants

February 18, 2026 Katherine Hearst, Middle East Eye. , , , ,
Eighteen defendants allegedly involved in a Palestine Action raid on an Israeli-owned arms factory in the UK will no longer face charges of aggravated burglary, after six others were acquitted of the same charges. Following the decision to drop the charges, five of the defendants  – William Plastow, Ian Sanders, Madeline Norman, Julia Brigadirova and Aleksandra Herbich – were granted conditional bail. Plastow, Sanders and Norman have been held on remand for the longest period of the 18- spending 18 months in prison. Birgadirova and Herbich has been imprisoned since November 2024.

High Court Overturns Palestine Action Ban

February 13, 2026 Asa Winstanley, The Electronic Intifada. , , ,
The High Court has ruled Britain’s ban on Palestine Action unlawful. A panel of judges found on Friday that the ban resulted in “very significant interference with the right to freedom of speech and the right to freedom of assembly.” Activists were jubilant. “Elbit Systems: pack up your bags. Palestine Action is back,” lisa minerva luxx said at a press conference outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Elbit Systems is Israel’s biggest arms firm. It has at least six remaining sites in the UK but Palestine Action’s assertive campaigns have shut down four others.

Why The Jury Were Right To Acquit Palestine Action

February 10, 2026 Jonathan Cook, Consortium News. , , , ,
Even before the trial began, the British government had done its utmost to prejudice the proceedings against six Palestine Action activists. It declared that they belonged to a terrorist organisation and that they were engaged in a terrorist enterprise in breaking into an Israeli weapons factory in Filton, Bristol – one, British officials avoided mentioning, that makes drones used to kill children in Gaza. In the months before the trial, the home secretary of the time, Yvette Cooper, explicitly said her decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was, in part, based on the events that had unfolded at the Filton factory.

Palestine Action Activists Cleared In Elbit Systems ‘Burglary’ Case

February 4, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
Six Palestine Action activists were cleared of aggravated burglary charges on 4 February after a jury at Woolwich Crown Court in south London returned not-guilty verdicts. The case centered on a 2024 break-in at a UK facility operated by Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, leading to the defendants being accused of infiltrating the site with the “intent to use violence.” The action was framed as aggravated burglary, carrying a potential life sentence. After a trial that began in November 2025, jurors acquitted Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, Zoe Rogers, and Jordan Devlin of aggravated burglary.

Palestine Action Strikers Shame The UK

January 18, 2026 Michael Leonardi, Counter Punch. , , ,
In a defiant stand that has shaken the corridors of British power, the imprisoned activists of Palestine Action have suspended their grueling hunger strike after forcing a major concession from the UK government. As of January 14, 2026 the last holdouts, including Heba Muraisi after 73 days without food, Kamran Ahmed at 66 days, and Lewie Chiaramello (who alternated days due to Type 1 diabetes), declared victory. They ended the protest upon news that Elbit Systems UK — Israel’s largest arms manufacturer — was denied a £2 billion Ministry of Defence contract for training British troops.

Britain’s Palestine Solidarity Hunger Strike Ends

January 16, 2026 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. , , ,
Three Palestine solidarity hunger strikers in Britain – Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmed, and Lewie Chiaramello – ended their action late on January 14, announcing significant progress on the strike’s demands. At the time the action ended, medical professionals had warned that the activists were at risk of “imminent death,” with Muraisi having refused food for 73 days. The hunger strike began in early November and focused on demands related to prisoners’ civil rights, as well as calls to cease Britain’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Palestine. One of the key demands was an end to the operations of Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems in the United Kingdom.

Why I Am On Hunger Strike In Solidarity With Pal Action Detainees

January 11, 2026 Mansoor Adayfi, Al Jazeera. , , , ,
I know this road. I have its map etched into my bones. I carry scars that won’t heal without justice, without accountability. I learned it in Guantanamo, when the only thing I could control was my own body. We were disappeared. Isolated. Forced into silence. Our words were redacted. Our letters were stamped secret. Lawyers were blocked. Time stretched and rotted. No court dates were given. No real charges were made. I was reduced to a number in an orange uniform, locked in a metal cage. The US government had already named me. “The worst of the worst.” “Terrorist.” “Enemy combatant.” Labels designed to make torture sound necessary.

Palestine Action Activists On Hunger Strike Reach ‘Critical Phase’

January 9, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
British doctors warned on 6 January that Palestine Action-linked prisoners refusing food in UK jails were facing life-threatening risks, describing them as “well into the critical phase,” as the hunger strikers vowed to continue despite repeated hospitalizations. The protest involves activists detained over alleged actions targeting UK sites connected to Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems – a company that has recorded record profits since the start of the Gaza genocide by supplying the Israeli military with weapons, munitions, and surveillance systems – as well as a Royal Air Force base. 

Hunger Strike Supporters Hit Labour Headquarters

December 30, 2025 Willem Moore, The Canary. , , ,
According to the media distributor, the Aftershock, a group calling itself ‘Justice for the Hunger Strikers’ has targeted Labour’s HQ in London. As we reported on 27 December, hunger striker Teuta Hoxha has lost the ability to stand, meanwhile Heba Muraisi, is losing the ability to speak. The hunger strikers have endured 18 months in prison without trial. As a consequence of this and other instances of alleged mistreatment, they recently launched legal action against justice secretary David Lammy. Notably, these activists were imprisoned before the government proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.

Germany: Imprisoned ‘Palestine Action’ Activists Face Harassment

December 29, 2025 Leon Wystrychowski, Middle East Monitor. , , , , ,
For years, Palestine activists in Germany have looked to Britain with a sense of astonishment. The state that promised Palestine to Zionist settler colonialism in the 1917 Balfour Declaration is scarcely less pro-Israel than the Federal Republic of Germany, with its so-called Staatsräson (‘reason of state‘) that proclaims unconditional solidarity with Israel – albeit without ever having been codified into law. And yet, solidarity in Britain appears – at least from this vantage point – to be more vibrant, broader, and above all more effective.

Hunger Striker Loses Ability To Stand As Strike Hits Day 55

December 28, 2025 Willem Moore, The Canary. , , , ,
Prisoners for Palestine have announced that hunger striker T Hoxha has lost the ability to stand. Hunger striker Heba Muraisi, meanwhile, is losing the ability to speak. The hunger strikers have endured 18 months in prison without trial. As a consequence of this and other instances of alleged mistreatment, they recently launched legal action against justice secretary David Lammy. Notably, these activists were imprisoned before the government proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.

UK Police Arrest Greta Thunberg Over Palestine Action Support

December 24, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , ,
Climate activist Greta Thunberg was arrested in central London on 23 December during a demonstration supporting imprisoned Palestine Action members, who doctors warn are at “imminent risk of death,” due to a weeks-long hunger strike. City of London Police detained the 22-year-old under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000 for displaying a placard backing the proscribed organization. Video footage captured by Prisoners for Palestine shows Thunberg holding a sign. It read: "I support the Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide."

Police Arrest And Assault Doctors Supporting Hunger Striker

December 22, 2025 Katherine Hearst, Middle East Eye. , , , ,
An NHS doctor says she was “strangled” by police officers at a protest outside a British prison demanding an ambulance for a critically ill Palestine Action-linked prisoner on hunger strike. Olivia Brandon, an Accident and Emergency doctor at a London hospital, told Middle East Eye that she was dragged by the hood of her coat by police, causing arterial compression and resulting in her losing consciousness. She also reported that another doctor, Ayo Moiett, who had been repeatedly demanding that Bronzefield prison call an ambulance for prisoner Qesser Zuhrah, was arrested by two police officers after he declined to attend a “voluntary interview” following allegations that he had assaulted a prison officer.

Doctors Warn Lives Of Palestine Action Hunger Strikers ‘At Risk’

December 19, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , , ,
Medical professionals in the UK have warned that eight Palestine Action activists held in British prisons are at "imminent risk of death," with concerns raised publicly during a press conference in south London on 18 December. Emergency physician and University College London lecturer Dr. James Smith said the detainees’ condition has sharply deteriorated and told reporters that “the hunger strikers are dying." Smith said accounts from inside the prison system point to “substandard monitoring and treatment." “It is my view, as an NHS doctor, that the complexity of the hunger strikers’ care needs must now be managed with regular specialist input if not continuous monitoring in hospital,” he said.

Elbit Factory Shut Down For A Second Time In Two Weeks

December 19, 2025 The Canary. , , , , ,
A group of protesters have shut down the entrance to a factory belonging to Elbit Systems. The halt of Israel’s weapons supplier is one of the key demands of the anti-genocide activists. Eight prisoners, all being held on remand for allegedly taking action in solidarity with Palestine, have been on open ended hunger strike since the 2 November in British prisons. This is the biggest coordinated prison hunger strike in UK prisons since the 1981 H-block strike in the North of Ireland. Six of the hunger strikers have been hospitalised so far. Despite the enormity of the strike, the media coverage has been minimal, and the government fails to respond.
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