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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Carson Beale

'We Will Not Be Silenced': Pro-Palestine Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike Over UK's 'Complicity in Genocide'

UK prisoners launch hunger strike over Gaza arms trade links (Credit: AFP News)

A group of imprisoned pro-Palestine activists has launched a hunger strike inside UK prisons, describing their protest as 'an act of resistance against Britain's complicity in genocide.' The activists, collectively known as Prisoners for Palestine, began refusing food on 3 November — the 108th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, a British statement supporting the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

A Protest Marking a Century of Resistance

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