Amu Gib is one of several prisoners on hunger strike who are awaiting trial for alleged offences relating to Palestine Action. Gib is being being held at HMP Bronzefield. Their charges relate to an alleged break-in at RAF Brize Norton this year. This article is based on interviews with Ainle Ó Cairealláin, host of the Rebel Matters podcast, and the writer and researcher ES Wight on days 18 and 33 of the strike.

We began our hunger strike on 2 November: the anniversary of the Balfour declaration, when Britain planted the seeds of the genocide that we are witnessing today.

Palestinians are now facing another winter without any of the things that anyone needs to survive. To reach the point we have, where Israel can weaponise starvation, you have to confront who enables that. Who arms them? Who allows Zionist settlers to steal and occupy Palestinian land? Who allows Israel to target farmers and people harvesting their olives?

I first learned about Palestine in sixth form – not from the teachers, but from other students, young Muslim women. I didn’t understand the historical context back then, but the bombing of civilian populations was so obviously wrong. Then seeing the routine nature of it, the same thing happening from one year to the next, was just so stark. This will keep going unless people put a stop to it. And the more I learned about Britain’s role in enabling these atrocities, the more I was unable to deal with simply doing........

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