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Three British activists jailed for alleged involvement with the banned anti-genocide group Palestine Action ended their monthslong hunger strike late Wednesday after the UK government rejected a $2.7 billion contract for a subsidiary of Israel’s largest weapons maker, Elbit Systems.

Prisoners for Palestine (P4P), which represents the hunger strikers, said that Hamran Ahmed, Heba Muraisi, and Lewie Chiaramello would accept food again. Muraisi hadn’t eaten in 73 days, while Ahmed refused food for 66 days and Chiaramello, who has Type 1 diabetes, fasted every other day for 44 days.

“It is definitely a time for celebration,” Chiaramello said Thursday. “A time to rejoice and to embrace our joy as revolution and as liberation.”

P4P spokesperson Francesca Nadin told the New Arab that the hunger strike “will be remembered as a landmark moment of pure defiance; an embarrassment........

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