{"id":238723,"date":"2026-01-15T03:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/238723\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T03:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:54:12","slug":"three-palestine-action-members-end-73-day-hunger-strike-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/238723\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Palestine Action members end 73-day hunger strike | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three Palestine Action hunger strikers have ended their 73-day action after they claimed a key demand was met.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Kamran Ahmed, Heba Muraisi and Lewie Chiaramello announced their decision to end their hunger strikes as Elbit Systems UK failed to win a government contract.<\/p>\n

Prisoners for Palestine said that Elbit Systems had lost out on a \u00a32 billion contract that would have seen them train 60,000 British troops a year.<\/p>\n

The campaign group said in a statement: “Our prisoners’ hunger strike will be remembered as a landmark moment of pure defiance; an embarrassment for the British state.<\/p>\n

“Banning a group and imprisoning our comrades has backfired on the British state, direct action is alive and the people will drive Elbit out of Britain for good.”<\/p>\n

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The group had been demanding Palestine Action<\/a> is de-proscribed and that the UK ends support for companies that supply weapons to Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Mr Chiaramello, a Type 1 diabetic, said: “We do this because of Palestine, because we’ve been inspired, because we’ve been empowered to take action and to try to realise our dreams for a free Palestine, for an emancipated world.”<\/p>\n

Within the last month, four other detained hunger strikers, Teuta Hoxha<\/a>, Jon Cink, Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib<\/a>, also began re-feeding.<\/p>\n

Reports from friends and family of the hunger strikers suggest they have suffered a range of side effects, including significant weight loss, headaches and lightheadedness.<\/p>\n

Some have required hospital treatment<\/a>, including Kamran Ahmed, 28, whose sister told Sky News he suffered a heart complication<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n

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Birmingham-based neurologist Dr David Nicholl, who has studied prison hunger strikes, told Sky News that months-long hunger strikes can leave lasting health implications, including neurological and cognitive disorders, dementia, vertigo, sight loss and extreme weakness.<\/p>\n

The hunger strikers have been detained in prison on remand while they await trial for alleged break-ins or criminal damage carried out in the name of Palestine Action before the group was banned under terrorism legislation.<\/p>\n

By the time they are tried, all will have spent more than a year in custody.<\/p>\n

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Prisons minister Lord Timpson has said the prisoners are charged with serious offences and remand decisions are for independent judges.<\/p>\n

A judicial review challenge to the proscription has concluded with judges reserving their decision until a later date.<\/p>\n

Palestine Action was banned \u200din July, making it a crime to \u200bbe a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Palestine Action hunger strikers have ended their 73-day action after they claimed a key demand was met.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-238723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}