Four members of the UK-based group Pales-tine Action are continuing hunger strikes while being held in prisons across the country. Four others who had also been on hunger strike have since ended their protests, with several doing so after being hospitalised. The remaining hunger strikers are Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmed, Teuta Hoxha and Lewie Chiaramello, aged between 20 and 31, and they have been on hunger strike for periods ranging from several weeks to more than 60 days.

The detainees are being held on remand over alleged involvement in separate incidents, including break-ins at the UK subsidiary of Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems in Filton near Bristol, where equipment was reportedly damaged, and an incident at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, where two military aircraft were sprayed with red paint. The charges include burglary, violent disorder, conspiracy to enter a restricted area and conspiracy to commit criminal damage. The prisoners deny the allegations. Three of the hunger strikers were imprisoned in November 2024 in connection with the Elbit Systems incident, while one has been held since July 2025 in relation to the RAF base incident.

Pales-tine Action was launched in July 2020 and was proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK parliament on July 2, 2025. Following the proscription, more than 1,600 arrests linked to support for the group were reported in the subsequent three months, and the ban has been challenged in court. The hunger strikers are demanding immediate bail, fair trial conditions, an end to censorship of their communications, the removal of the group from the proscribed list and the closure of Elbit Systems’ UK operations.