Qesser Zuhrah, who launched the
@Prisoners4Pal collective hunger strike, is TWENTY YEARS OLD. She has been detained without bail for a year.
"As a nation, we have made a shameful mockery of resistance," she said. "O Palestine, we can do more for you than bang our pots and pans."
When she announced her strike to fellow prisoners, guards brutally forced her back into her cell and gave her a disciplinary citation.
An excerpt from her statement:
"As we take on this struggle, we follow in the honoured legacy of prisoners throughout time, from Ireland to Guantanamo to Palestine.
The resistance has always been banished by the oppressors to the prisons, in the hopes that this is where they will send it to die. But now, it is from within these prison walls that we will use the prisoners' tools to dismantle the master's house.
As a nation, we have made a shameful mockery of resistance. It is from our Palestinian people that we learn what resistance truly entails.
It is from our Palestinian prisoners, whose captivity and unspeakable torture could not extinguish their desire for the liberation of their homeland, that we learn.
It is from our resistance, whom we have cowardly forsaken, that we learn. It is from them that we learn, O Palestine, that we can do more for you than bang our pots and pans. And it is in their footsteps we follow, as we determine to put our bodies on the line in resistance to the Zionist project, its manifestation as Elbit systems and its implementation by the British state.
We seek to do this in service of the Palestinian cause, in service of our duty to humanity and in service of our duty to justice. Entrusted to us by our Lord as Shaheed, the Witness, because, in the words of martyred Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat, this struggle is the highest honour of our lives. We seek success only from Allah, with full certainty in the fact that it is He who presides over all matters.
In this matter, we seek the support of Allah, certain that victory is only from Al-Adl, the Most Just. Ya Allah, we ask that you purify our intentions, make sincere our actions and forgive us for our sins, so that we may earn, through this struggle, your mercy and your favour upon us. Ameen.
Elbit, while you boast of how your weapons have been battle-tested on Palestinians, our resistance will inform you that your tests have failed, because Gaza will rise and Palestine will never die. I do not have words that are more comforting than the words of our Lord. So to my fellow prisoners, persevere and endure and remain stationed, and fear Allah so that you may be successful. And my dearest people of the land that is Palestine, be patient, indeed the promise of Allah is true, do not let those with no certainty weaken your firmness. And please, forgive us for our failures, Ya Gaza.
And to the free people of this world, we, your prisoners, urge you, as our martyred Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif urged us all, not to let chains silence you nor borders restrain you, and join us in pursuit of justice by resisting the war machine in any and every capacity you can, because whoever does righteousness, it is for his own soul, and whoever does evil, does so against it.
So from your prisoners to you, shut Elbit down.
Sincerely, Qesser Faryal Zuhra, Prisoner Number A9259FE"
Yesterday, November 2nd (Balfour Day), two pro-Palestine prisoners, Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib, began a hunger strike inside British prisons.
@Prisoners4Pal
Today, Heba Muraisi joined them, marking the first rolling hunger strike in a British prison in decades.
Qesser has been held since November 2024 over the alleged Elbit Systems raid in Bristol, Amu since July 2025 for actions at RAF Brize Norton opposing weapons transfers to Gaza genocide, and Heba for allegedly damaging Israel’s largest weapons producer.
None have stood trial.
Since the government’s proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, mistreatment has intensified. Restrictions on communication, confiscation of personal items, and repeated solitary confinement.
The hunger strikers are demanding bail, the right to a fair trial, access to mail and for Palestine Action to be deproscribed.