SALT stands in solidarity with hunger strikers
Since November 2nd 2025, a hunger strike has been growing in British prisons amongst those imprisoned for actions in solidarity with Palestine. Eight political prisoners held in remand for alleged actions continue their hunger strike. Their names are Amu Gib, Qesser Zuhrah, Heba Muraisi, Jon Cink, T Hoxha, Kamran Ahmed, Lewie Chiaramello and Umer Khalid. The longest of these 8 strikers’ actions now totals 38 days without food (as of 10th December 2025). November 2nd marked the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration 1917 in which the British state expressed its support for the Zionist project, support that it continues to provide financially, logistically and materially.
As Solidarity Across Land Trades (SALT), a grassroots trade union representing workers in land-related trades, we express our solidarity and support for the hunger striking prisoners. We specifically support their demand to end the British state’s support for the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people via the weapons company Elbit Systems. We add our voices to the growing demand for Elbit to cease all operations, and for a radical break in the long tradition of Britain arming and propping up the apartheid state of Israel. Our government is complicit in this genocide even in the face of overwhelming and undeniable evidence of the occupation’s intent to murder and steal ever more land.
Currently, under the conditions of the so-called ceasefire, almost all of the agricultural land in Gaza is completely inaccessible to Palestinians. In a densely-populated area, where food is already extremely scarce, we consider this deliberate tactic aimed at making it impossible for Palestinians to feed themselves. Israeli-engineered famine occurs alongside ever increasing pressure on those living in rural parts of the West Bank, where settlers burn olive trees and occupy ever more agricultural land, heavily armed and with the protection and sanction of the Israeli Defense/Occupation Force. Key agricultural tasks and general rural life are made almost impossible by the constant threat of settler violence and arbitrary abduction at checkpoints throughout the West Bank. Through these strategies, Palestinians become largely dependent on food brought in and through Israel, much of it grown on land stolen from their ancestors in the 1948 ‘Nakba’ and in the years since.
As workers in land trades, including agriculture and horticulture, we deeply sympathise with and share the vision of food sovereignty, where communities are able to feed themselves and earn good livelihoods from the land, in accordance with their own needs as they see fit. This has long been extremely difficult in Palestine, and has become ever more so in the intensified campaign of genocide and displacement since October 7th 2023. Palestinians must be able to return to their ancestral land and be free to feed themselves from it as they see fit. By forgoing food and resisting with their bodies, the hunger strikers have chosen the last strategy available to them to express their rage. We support their call for an end to both the genocide itself, and the brutal treatment they have received at the hands of the British state for daring to call an end to our government’s complicity in it. We ask you, our members and supporters, to speak to those around you and use the TOOLKIT on the Prisoners4Palestine website to spread awareness of the strike and call for their demands to be met.
© Solidarity Across Land Trades 2025 