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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great research skills and reflection piece from Anna Sebit, one of the most sensitive researchers and interviewers I've ever met!
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Centre for Statecraft & National Security @csns-uk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What happens when you ask people about their traumatic experiences? Researcher Anna Adiyo Sebit – who interviewed 134 people in 7 villages in South Sudan – describes how she managed the blurred lines between research, people’s daily lives, and her own mental health. csns.uk/2026/09/29/l...
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Pause the Recording: Lessons Learned from the XCEPT Interviews in South Sudan - CSNS | Centre for Statecraft & National Security
Anna Sebit describes her experience conducting interviews on behalf of the XCEPT programme in South Sudan. She describes the reality of speaking to people about difficult topics, ranging from family h...
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Sudan's jails and torture systems are a key part of its war system. atarnetwork.com/wp-content/upl oads/2024/04/ATAR-English-Issue-3-The-labyrinth.pdf#:~:text=When%20the%20military%20tortured%20Mustafa%20Hassanain%2C%20a,rural%20warzone%2C%20secret%20torture%20for%20the%20capital .
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Latest from acjps.org - Diqris Prison, just outside Nyala, South #Darfur is holding 13,000 people in severely overcrowded conditions, with almost no food +
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African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies – ACJPS | المركز الافريقي لدراسات العدالة و السلام
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caatuk.bsky.social @caatuk.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Tomorrow marks 11 years since the Saudi-led coalition began their brutal assault on Yemen. More than 377,000 people were killed. Today, the UK continues to support US-Israeli attacks on Yemen. 🗓️ 26th March ⏰ 6:30pm 📍 Downing Street caat.org.uk/events/yemen...
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
LUPD is going round the shelters, trying to support displaced people with disabilities. Their work is badly needed, and it's an antidote to all the poisons released by the latest atttacks. You can help them too
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
But this time around, they're at the end of their tether. Some areas are cutting off access to displaced people, as Israel works up sectarian tensions. Most of Beirut is jam-packed. And now as then, people overwhelmed with the trauma of displacement don't welcome needier people
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
LUPD has spent decades advocating for accessible schools, in part because schools in Lebanon become shelters when the country is attacked. They're always badgering ministries and UN types to make simple investments in accessibility
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
LUPD is still creative about challenging discrimination based on disability - and on the way, they challenge sectarianism too. Because all people with disabilities are equal, people of every sect are equal too. But the latest outrages against Lebanon are testing the country again
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Many years on, the activists reminisced cheerfully about uneasy arrivals in IDP centres - displaced people feared needier people turning up - and their spectacular upending of disability discrimination, when they started handing out food, instead of demanding it.
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The Lebanese Union for People with Physical Disabilities has been a big part of my life for years. They started out as young activists in a long-ago civil war, delivering supplies to displacement centres from wheelchairs
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
20% of Lebanon's population has been displaced. Israeli attacks threaten specific religious groups, and when they're told to flee, the places they run to fear that bombs will follow them. And about a quarter of them are older or disabled. That's when it gets harder
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Latest in Atar: Food aid volume is declining in Sudan. Food aid provides a few kilos of food a year to target groups. It's not food aid, but old ideals of solidarity, inscribed into old production systems, which are keeping Sudan alive. atarnetwork.com?p=22340&utm_...
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Keeping Sudan alive: When aid falls short, solidarity feeds Sudan - أتر
How much food aid does Sudan receive? Each year between 2016 and 2023, Sudan received between 500 million and 1 billion US dollars in humanitarian assistance. After the outbreak of the current war, th...
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Then as now, militias were created by militarizing and criminalizing members of pastoralist groups, misrepresenting the entire group as naturally warlike, and using the militia name and the group name interchangeably - 'The Rizeigat'
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Now what's needed is a history of militias used by the Egyptian Army - for example, the Egyptian Army's 1916 campaign to conquer Darfur, which relied on militias from drawn from pastoralist tribes whom the colonialists deemed warlike aberfoylesecurity.com?p=1206
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Subverting the Sultan: British Arms Shipments to the Arabs of Darfur, 1915-16 | Aberfoyle International Security
In recent years the Sudan government has been responsible for pouring weapons into Darfur at a time when territorial and environmental tensions were already high. Rather than encourage and supervise resolutions to these issues the government has chosen to inflame ethnic and racial divisions in the region. The well-known devastation created by this policy has a precedent in British activities in the region in 1915-16 as part of the buildup to the Anglo-Egyptian invasion that brought the independent Sultanate of Darfur under the control of the Khartoum government.
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
@3arabawy.substack.com's conclusion should be read by everyone following the crisis in Sudan right now
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
But the Brits replace the Egyptian Army with the SDF, shortly after the 1919 Egyptian revolution, which brought the self-determination discourse of the post-WW1 Versailles conference into everyday politics in Egypt and Sudan - Britain feared the Egyptian Army would bring those ideas to Sudan +
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
As he often does, @3arabawy.substack.com grounds his analysis in an eye-opening re-reading of a forgotten text, this time, Abd al-Rahman al-Faki's 'History of the Sudan Defence Force.' The forerunner of the SDF was the Brit-officered Egyptian Army, which conquered and ruled Sudan +
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
READ THIS! Superb article from @3arabawy.substack.com on the Sudanese army's colonial origins. The army survives by reproducing the racialized fragmentations pioneered by the colonial state. One of the best accounts of the army I've ever read! + 3arabawy.substack.com/p/egypt-empire
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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Rendition of the anticolonial love poem written by Khalil Farah (the name 'Azza' used as a replacement for Sudan to evade detection by the colonial government). Happy Valentine's Day ❤️‍🩹
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Meanwhile, the Australian government consolidates its commercial links with this merchant of death and state terror, Palantir. #auspol
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Syria Notes @syrianotes.org · 14/02/2026
Syrian authorities have begun evacuating al-Hol camp of Syrians. They are being transferred to a temporary camp in Aleppo in preparation for their return to their areas of origin. Only Iraqi families remain in the camp, awaiting repatriation to Iraq… — Zain al-Abidin x.com/i/status/202...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Yesterday upwards of 300 million people across India held a national strike. Numerous unions and farmers' groups flooded the streets, shutting down large segments of the economy. One of the key demands was a withdrawal from the trade deal struck with the Trump administration.
a street flooded with thousands of marchers.
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Not all women are aware of the laws regarding abandonment and remarriage. It's a very difficult time for these women to face this grave injustice - military rule and constant war are not conducive to women's rights
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
In one case, ACJPS reports that the woman was abandoned by her husband in 2019, after giving birth. Sudan is a place of multiple separations, because of war, poverty, and a production system that relies heavily on migrant workers, and many women get separated from their husbands +
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The Africa Centre for Justice and Peace Studies just published this report of two courts in Sudan sentencing women to death for adultery acjps.org/publications/s udanese-courts-sentence-two-women-to-death-by-stoning-for-adultery-despite-international-obligations +
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Many people say that Janjaweed - the 'devils on horseback' term for rural militias that committed the first Darfur genocides of the twenty-first century - is a compound of Jiim 3 - the Arabic translation for the German G3 rifle - and jawaad, or horseback /
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
If you want a sneak peek, read this great article from @romandeckert.bsky.social about how German arms shaped Sudanese wars of today rosalux.de/en/news/id/5... +
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Heft Nr. 4, rls-Workshop „Konservative Leitbilder und linke Kritik“ - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Dezember 2006. Dokumentation zum Workshop der Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung und des Kurt-Eisner-Vereins für politische Bildung in Bayern e.V. vom 4. bis 5. November im EineWeltHaus in München
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Can't wait to read part 2 of this article, which brings the story up to date with an account of the German role in twentieth and twenty-first century wars in Sudan +
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Deckert's work uncovers the way German mercantile colonialists mobilized formerly enslaved Sudanese troops as mercenaries to carry out East African genocides - a key state formation strategy in the African interior, which in some places remains a state-maintenance strategy +
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Ten years later, the British, French, Belgians and Germans were all waiting to pounce on South Sudan. The genocidal Belgian king Leopold snatched an enclave around Juba in 1894. 'C'est mon panache' said the monster, when the British asked him why he wanted a stretch of Nile waters +
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
He starts out with a great overview of precolonial German travel literature in Sudan, and German machinations in the Scramble for Africa, regulated by the Berlin Conference of 1884 +
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The latest issue of the Society for the Study of the Sudans journal is out, and in it, another great article from @romandeckert.bsky.social on the hidden history of Germany in Sudan's long wars sssuk.org +
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Po-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Greens will soon enough replace Labour as the party of choice for some trade unions
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary at Israeli [weapons] factory All six were acquitted of aggravated burglary and jurors found Ms Rajwani, Ms Rogers and Mr Devlin not guilty of violent disorder. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary at Israeli factory
Prosecutors said the six defendants were members of the now-banned group Palestine Action
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sasha baker @sasha98.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
After 17 months in prison, 6 Palestine Action members have been cleared of all charges over an alleged raid on Elbit Systems. What an embarassment for the government and their expansion of 'counter-terror' measures. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Palestine Action protesters not guilty of defence firm burglary
The group are cleared of aggravated burglary over the alleged raid at an Elbit Systems warehouse.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Muhamad Majadla (ch12, Israel) reports that Palestinian returnees were "offered flights to third countries as an alternative to going back to Gaza".
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Fascinating guest post on @3arabawy.substack.com blog about the surveillance infrastructure of Egypt’s repressive state. 3arabawy.substack.com/p/inside-the...
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Inside the Surveillance Apparatus
Egypt Security Sector Report
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Philippa Matthews @pippa-matt.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Our #liver #health project ‘MoLo’ for the #Mongolian Community in #London: #education, assessment for #diabetes, metabolic liver disease #MASLD, #HIV & viral #hepatitis, & linkage to care. Huge team effort with brilliant engagement. @who.int @crick.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk #HBV #HCV #LiverSky #MedSky 🧪🇲🇳
MoLo project team photo by the University College London inclusion health outreach van with the Mongolian Community Organisation hosting the project. Team members set up in advance for point of care testing Kit for point of care testing for HIV, HBV, HCV and syphilis
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Still on!
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel. At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found. Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 20/11/2025
#OtD 20 Nov 2013 Syrian anarchist Omar Aziz was arrested by dictator Bashar al-Assad's secret police. Aziz helped distribute supplies in beseiged communities and co-founded the first directly democratic local council in Barzeh. He later died in custody stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9317...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged." www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
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Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Of the twenty-six who sat silently in protest of the ban, only eight were arrested… Police said that the stations in Cornwall did not have a large enough capacity to hold the number who had defied the ban. In other terms, the police force had been overwhelmed cobblestonemedia.co.uk/2025/11/18/d...
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Devon and Cornwall Police overwhelmed by the number of protesters defying ban on Palestine Action. – Cobblestone Media
Today, twenty-six people defied the ban on Palestine Action outside of Truro Cathedral, Cornwall, by holding signs that read "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action." This action was part of a ...
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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers botfrens.com/collections/44/content…
Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 07/11/2025
All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 219 of The Continent Protests, an internet blackout, and deadly force marked Tanzania’s Election Day. Once online again, 37 readers shared what they witnessed. Read their stories: bit.ly/219_TC
The cover of The Continent, dated 8 November 2025 (Issue 219), bears the headline “Tanzania’s darkest week” and features a striking political cartoon by Gado that echoes Honoré Daumier’s 1831 caricature Gargantua.
At the top, the masthead appears in bold black letters on a beige background. Below it, the illustration dominates the page. It shows a woman seated on a throne-like chair, drawn to resemble Tanzania’s leader. Her mouth is open wide, and a long wooden ramp extends from her mouth, down which small, faceless figures carry large sacks labeled “Corruption,” “Incompetence,” “Fear,” and “Election Fraud.” They march upward to feed these vices into her mouth, while behind them, a long line of weary people stretches toward the horizon, waiting their turn.
To the left stands a sign reading “Abductions”, beside a huge pile of skulls — a chilling symbol of death and repression. Below, masked soldiers with rifles shoot civilians on a blood-spattered ground, surrounded by the bodies of the fallen. The entire scene conveys chaos, violence, and fear.
The image is a nod to Daumier’s Gargantua, which depicted France’s King Louis-Philippe as a grotesque giant devouring the people’s wealth while rewarding his cronies. Here, that 19th-century metaphor of gluttonous tyranny is adapted to Tanzania’s present moment — portraying a leader who consumes corruption, fear, and human lives themselves.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
PR firm 'planted story' about Iran funding Palestine Action in media, report says Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription www.middleeasteye.net/news/pr-firm...
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PR firm 'planted story' about Iran funding Palestine Action in media, report says
Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
‘British police arrested us for carrying signs on pizza boxes’ Two young Irish men feel they’re being treated “akin to ISIS” after being arrested for carrying pizza boxes emblazoned with a Palestine Action and anti-genocide slogan in London Lift The Ban m.independent.ie/irish-news/b...
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‘British police arrested us for carrying signs on pizza boxes’ – Irish men facing charges under terrorism legislation
Two young Irish men feel they’re being treated “akin to ISIS” after being arrested for carrying pizza boxes emblazoned with a Palestine Action (PA) and anti-genocide slogan in London.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
'We Will Not Be Silenced': Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike Over UK's 'Complicity in Genocide' Remand-held activists against Elbit Systems launch open-ended hunger strike for bail, fair trials, and deproscription of Palestine Action Search: Prisoners for Palestine www.ibtimes.co.uk/imprisoned-u...
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Pro-Palestine Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike Over UK's 'Complicity in Genocide'
Three UK activists jailed over anti-Elbit protests launch a hunger strike on the Balfour Declaration anniversary, demanding bail, fair trials, and an end to Britain's arms trade with Israel.
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