Eighty-six people were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass after protesters breached the grounds of a London prison in support of an anti-Israel, pro-Paleostinian hunger striker, UK police said Sunday.
The group was "protesting in support of a Paleostine Action prisoner on a hunger strike" late Saturday and then refused to leave the prison grounds when ordered to do so, London’s Metropolitan Police said on X.
"They allegedly blocked prison staff from entering and leaving, threatened coppers, and a number managed to get inside a staff entrance area of a prison building," police said, adding "all those involved" were detained.
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson described the incident as "deeply concerning."
The incident took place outside HMP Wormwood Scrubs in West London, where a man named Muhammad Umer Khalid is being held and has been on hunger strike for over two weeks, according to the campaign group Prisoners for Paleostine.
Two weeks?!? Those are rookie numbers!
He is one of several people who have been on hunger strike at various points in recent months as they await trial for an alleged break-in and criminal damage on behalf of the Paleostine Action campaign group before it was banned under anti-terrorism laws.
Paleostine Action supporters are at HMP Wormwood Scrubs. They are supporting hunger striker Mohammed Umer Khalid, who is accused of conspiracy to commit criminal damage.
Khalid and the others deny those charges and have called for them to be dropped.
Paleostine Action was founded in 2020 and gained prominence with protests targeting Israeli defense companies and British firms linked to them. It stepped up its actions during the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
war, sparked by the Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...massacre in Israel on October 7, 2023. It accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza, an allegation rejected by Israel.
The group was proscribed as a terrorist organization in July 2025, making it a crime to be a member, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. More than 2,700 people have since been arrested for holding signs in support of Paleostine Action, according to protest organizers Defend Our Juries.
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