# Amu Gib: STATEMENT *Amu was arrested and interrogated by counter-terrorism police for allegedly breaking into RAF Brize Norton, Britain’s largest airforce base, and decommissioning two military planes alongside three others. The action allegedly caused £7 million worth of damage. RAF Brize Norton facilitates daily flights to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, where military operations include the surveillance missions over Gaza providing the Israeli army with intelligence for the Genocide in real time, refueling fighter jets, and transporting weapons.* *Amu was remanded to prison on charges of conspiring to enter a restricted area for purposes harmful to the UK’s safety and interests, and with conspiracy to commit criminal damage. Since being remanded, Amu’s fundamental rights have been abused by the prison. Their visits have been restricted, phone cut off, they have been put into solitary confinement for arbitrary reasons and have been subjected to random cell searches. Amu was also forcibly taken off their craft job for embroidering free Palestine on a cushion.* *Amu reflects on their time in prison in a recorded message on their 30th birthday. Their first words are, “It’s not my birthday, it’s the 707th day of a genocide against Palestine.”* *“Maybe I do have one wish,” they say, “that every year of my life will act as a handful of sand in the gears of this imperialist killing machine. And that we live to see the day it eventually, inevitably, grinds to a halt. Free Palestine.”* ## \-STATEMENT- The killers aren’t here in jail, they’re on TV, so don’t sit on the sofa, crocheting yourself a noose. Resist\! We don’t need more evidence, more UN resolutions. As long as these factories run, resist\! In the streets, the prisons, the courtrooms, the docks. Until the leaders of the free world are not shareholders in genocide, resist\! Until Gaza is rebuilt, and Palestine is free, resist\! It’s not the time to write a little note for the suggestion box of the zionist entity, it’s time to stop it\! All we can do is resist, there is no question. But there are still questions, right? Is the question – should Palestine be free? Or is the question \- do its people get to fight back? Is the question, is this my problem? Or is the question \- what can I do about it? Is the question, what could happen to my loved ones, to me, to my farm? Is the answer I’m afraid? I’m afraid of hunger, of losing people, of having nothing to lose, of rivers running dry, of poisoned land, of forest fires, of the invention, manufacture, and release of bombs that can evaporate people and leave holes in the earth where they stood. I’m scared of our silence, and what its apparently possible to normalise. I’m scared of what we can stomach. I’m scared of how easily you can be put in prison for not having money. I’m scared of war, of no one coming when we need them. But our silence, our fear, our productivity will not protect us. “*There is no such thing as someone else’s children*”. – Omar El Akad