Palestine Action activist on starvation strike taken to hospital as campaigners criticise ‘negligent’ remedy | EUROtoday

Campaigners have slammed the “deliberately negligent” remedy of an imprisoned Palestine Action activist who has refused to eat for 50 days, as they’re taken to hospital.

Amu Gib is a part of a bunch of Palestine Action activists who’ve been on starvation strike for months whereas awaiting trial for alleged break-ins or felony harm.

Gib is imprisoned at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey, charged with breaking into RAF Brize Norton and spray portray two RAF Voyager planes in help of Palestine Action.

But campaigners have criticised the jail and Government’s dealing with of the scenario and pressured that it’s “completely unacceptable” to disregard this starvation strike and warned the starvation strikers will die with out intervention.

Prisoners for Palestine stated Gib’s well being has “deteriorated rapidly” since becoming a member of the starvation strike on 2 November and stated the activist has been taken to hospital and now wants to make use of a wheelchair.

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The marketing campaign group stated the jail had “initially refused” to present Gib entry to a wheelchair, which resulted in them lacking a GP appointment, and withheld the vitamin thiamine from Gib “for days”.

Gib was supplied with a wheelchair on Friday and brought to hospital on Saturday.

It comes after Dr James Smith, an emergency doctor who’s a lecturer at University College London, stated the group wanted specialist medical assist as a result of they “are dying”.

“At this trajectory, the hunger strikers will die unless there is urgent intervention by the Government. It is completely unacceptable and deliberately negligent to pretend the hunger strike is not happening, or to dismiss the prisoners’ demands,” Prisoners for Palestine stated.

“They are in the custody of the state, and any harm that comes to them is a deliberate outcome of the Government’s negligence and the politicisation of their detention,” it added.

A beloved one among Gib defined they haven’t had any info since 10am on Friday and have been “left in the dark”.

They stated: “We wouldn’t know if Amu is in a coma or had a heart attack. I’m the next of kin and it’s on Amu’s medical record that I am to be contacted in the event of their hospitalisation.

“But its been complete agonising silence for 57 hours. I’m furious and outraged that the prison was withholding thiamine from the hunger strikers, without which they are at high risk of brain damage.”

Last week, Mr Corbyn wrote on Instagram to say he had visited Gib at jail and referred to as for them to be granted bail.

Since the starvation strike started on 2 November, a complete of seven prisoners have been taken to hospital.

Earlier in December, activists Jon Cink and Umar Khalid ended their 38-day and 12-day starvation strikes for well being causes, Prisoners For Palestine stated; each have been admitted to hospital and have since been discharged again to jail.

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HMP Pentonville prisoner Kamran Ahmed, who has refused to eat for 42 days, stated dying for his trigger could be “worthwhile” in a phone interview from his cell on Friday with The Sunday Times.

Ahmed, 28, from London, is accused of breaking into the UK web site of an Israel-based defence agency close to Patchway, Bristol, with sledgehammers in August 2024, inflicting £1 million of injury.

He informed The Sunday Times: “Every day I’m scared that potentially I might die.

“I’ve been getting chest pains regularly… There have been times where I felt like I’m getting tasered – my body’s vibrating or shaking. I’ll basically lose control of my feelings.

“I’ve been scared since the seventh day when my blood sugars dropped. The nurse said: ‘I’m scared you’re not going to wake up (when you go to sleep). Please eat something.’

“But I’m looking at the bigger picture of perhaps we can relieve oppression abroad and relieve the situations for my co-defendants… Yes, I’m scared of passing away. Yes, this may have lifelong implications. But I look at the risk versus reward. I see it as worthwhile.

Almost 900 health professionals have written to Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lammy, Health Secretary Wes Streeting, senior NHS officials and senior prison officials to call for the activities to get medical attention.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has previously said the “rules and procedures” are being adopted, after dealing with questions within the Commons about why his ministers had refused to satisfy with representatives of these putting.

Prisons minister Lord Timpson has beforehand stated the service is “very experienced” at coping with starvation strikes and has “robust and working” techniques in place and the Prison Service “will not be meeting” any prisoners or their representatives.