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Five Palestine Action Supporters Hospitalized While on Hunger Strike to Protest Imprisonment

HeadlineDec 11, 2025

In Britain, five political prisoners awaiting trial for supporting the banned protest group Palestine Action have been hospitalized due to deteriorating health as a result of hunger strikes. It’s now the largest coordinated hunger strike in U.K. prisons since the 1981 Irish Republican protests led by political prisoner Bobby Sands.

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