<article data-history-node-id="433202" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestine-action-hunger-striker-losing-ability-speak" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestine-action-hunger-striker-losing-ability-speak" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Palestine Action hunger striker is 'losing the ability to speak'</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>In a statement released on Monday, Palestine Action prisoner Heba Muraisi, who is currently on the 57th day of her hunger strike, said she is losing her ability to think clearly and form sentances.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>She said she is growing "weaker as each day passes" in a statement released by Prisoners for Palestine, and claimed that "I can no longer lie on my side as it hurts my face."&nbsp;</p> <p>Muraisi is one of four remaining prisoners still on hunger strike. Two other activists had to pause their strike after being admitted to hospital due to deteriorating health.&nbsp;</p> <p>They are protesting against their treatment, the proscription of Palestine Action, and British complicity with Israel's genocide in Gaza.&nbsp;</p> <p>Eight Palestine Action prisoners have been accused of offences involving break-ins and criminal damage at a weapons factory worked by Israli-owned Elbit Systems UK and an RAF base in Brize Norton, prior to the direct action group's proscription.&nbsp;</p> <p>They have been awaiting trial since 2024, but will not expect to go before a judge prior to May next year at the earliest.&nbsp;</p> <p>Muraisi was transfered from Brozefield to HMP New Hall in October, 100 miles away from friends and family, in what the statement released by Prisoners for Palestine described as "clearly a vindictive act ... to separate her from other hunger strikers to wear down her will to resist." She hasn't seen her family in over 4 months, according to the statement.&nbsp;</p> <p>Another inmate refusing food, Teuta Hoxha, being held in HMP Peterborough, has said she is unable to stand without blacking out and "virtually bedridden" due to worstening health from the strike.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="433162" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/jewish-settlers-attack-bedouin-community-near-jerusalem-vandalise" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/jewish-settlers-attack-bedouin-community-near-jerusalem-vandalise" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Jewish settlers attack Bedouin community near Jerusalem, vandalise property</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="124" data-start="0">Jewish settlers attacked the Bedouin community of Khilat al-Sidra, near the town of Mikhmas northeast of occupied Jerusalem, on Sunday evening, vandalising residents’ property, Palestinian officials said.</p> <p data-end="563" data-start="333">The Jerusalem Governorate said around 15 settlers raided the community and stole solar-powered lighting equipment. It said the same community had come under a similar attack the previous night, when settlers threw stones at homes.</p> <p data-end="774" data-start="565">The governorate said Khilat al-Sidra is encircled by six illegal settlement outposts, from which groups of settlers repeatedly launch attacks in an effort to intimidate residents and force them off their land.</p> <p data-end="971" data-start="776">“These attacks are part of a systematic policy aimed at emptying Bedouin communities around Jerusalem of their inhabitants,” the governorate said, calling for urgent protection for the residents.</p> <p data-end="1187" data-start="973">The assault comes amid a surge in settler violence across the occupied West Bank. According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Israeli forces and settlers carried out 2,144 attacks in November alone.</p> <p data-end="1459" data-start="1189">The commission said the Israeli army was responsible for 1,523 of those attacks, while settlers carried out 621. The highest number of incidents was recorded in Ramallah and al-Bireh, with 360 attacks, followed by Hebron with 348, Bethlehem with 342 and Nablus with 334.</p> <p data-end="1700" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="1461">Rights groups say settler violence, often carried out under the protection of Israeli forces, has intensified alongside Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, further entrenching the displacement of Palestinian communities across the West Bank.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="433210" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-fire-and-settler-attacks-injure-palestinians-occupied-west-bank" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-fire-and-settler-attacks-injure-palestinians-occupied-west-bank" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli fire and settler attacks injure Palestinians in the occupied West Bank</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="264" data-start="139">Israeli occupation forces shot and wounded a young Palestinian man in Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank on Monday evening, Wafa reported.</p> <p data-end="501" data-start="266">Sources told Wafa that Israeli gunfire resulted in wounding the man’s foot with shrapnel while he was near the apartheid wall in the northern part of the city. Paramedics transferred him to hospital, where doctors described his condition as stable.</p> <p data-end="611" data-start="503">Elsewhere, settlers injured a child and an elderly man during an attack east of Bethlehem on Monday evening.</p> <p data-end="917" data-start="613">Security sources said a group of settlers raided the Khala’il al-Luz area, assaulted homes and violently beat 80-year-old Ibrahim Ahmed Hassan Abayat, leaving him with serious bruising to his shoulder and back. The same attack injured 14-year-old Mustafa Abu Jalghif, who suffered fractures to his limbs.</p> <p data-end="1203" data-start="919">Residents say settler violence has escalated across eastern Bethlehem governorate in recent months, particularly in Khala’il al-Luz. The area has faced repeated assaults, home raids and efforts to impose control by force, carried out under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.</p> <p data-end="1459" data-start="1205">Communities near colonial outposts east of Bethlehem also report ongoing night raids, restrictions on access to farmland and attacks on farmers and shepherds. These measures have deepened fear and instability, hitting elderly people and children hardest.</p> <p data-end="1773" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="1461">Data from the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission shows that Israeli forces and settlers carried out 2,144 attacks in November alone. The occupation army accounted for 1,523 incidents, while settlers carried out 621, with the highest numbers recorded in Ramallah and al-Bireh, Hebron, Bethlehem and Nablus.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="433196" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/protests-erupt-somaliland-after-israeli-recognition-expressing" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/protests-erupt-somaliland-after-israeli-recognition-expressing" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Protests erupt in Somaliland after Israeli recognition, expressing solidarity with Palestine</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Protests erupted in the breakaway Somali region of Somaliland on Sunday following Israel's announcement that it would formally recognise the territory as an independent state.</p> <p>Videos posted on social media showed protesters taking to the streets of Boroma, a town about 50km west of Somaliland's regional capital Hargeisa, where they chanted slogans&nbsp;against Israel&nbsp;and waved&nbsp;Palestinian flags.</p> <p>"Free, Free Palestine," the large group of protesters could be heard chanting as onlookers cheered them on.</p> <p>"We don't want separatists," others chanted.</p> <p>Israel on Friday became the first country to formally recognise the self-declared republic as sovereign state, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying Israel would seek immediate cooperation with Somaliland in the fields of agriculture, health, technology and the economy.</p> <p>It was not immediately clear why Israel made the declaration or whether it was expecting something in return.</p> <p>Earlier this year, news reports had said that Israel and the US had approached Somaliland, among others, about accepting Palestinians from Gaza as part of US President Donald Trump's plan at the time to forcibly resettle the territory's population.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/protests-erupt-somaliland-after-israel-recognition">Protests erupt in breakaway region of Somaliland after Israeli recognition</a></h3> <div alt="Protesters rally in Boroma, about 50km west of Somaliland’s capital, Hargeisa, on 28 December 2025 following Israel’s recognition of the breakaway region (Social media)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="013aeead-0082-431b-97e3-13692ae20611" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/somalia-boroma-protest-solidarity-palestine-screengrab.jpg.png" width="1400" height="788" alt="Protesters rally in Boroma, about 50km west of Somaliland’s capital, Hargeisa, on 28 December 2025 following Israel’s recognition of the breakaway region (Social media)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> </div> </div> </article>

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