# Teuta Hoxha: STATEMENT *T was arrested in the dawn raids against Palestine activists on 19th November 2024 by counter-terrorism police in the third wave of Filton arrests on allegations of being connected to the Filton action, which saw over £1 million in damage caused to Elbit’s research centre for Israeli weapons making her one of the Filton 24\. Although the terror charges were dropped, she has been held in remand ever since and has spent her 29th birthday behind bars.* *T previously blockaded the entrance of Elbit’s Bristol HQ, forcing the Israeli weapons maker to close, and soon after, she also disrupted Elbit-investor BNY Mellon’s office in Manchester. She was moved from HMP Bronzefield on the day MPs voted to proscribe Palestine Action.* *On 11 August 2025, T went on hunger strike in protest of the prison’s violations of her fundamental rights such as the cancellation of her recreational and educational activities, the withholding of her mail, and her removal from a job in the prison library. She also reported mistreatment by guards, who constantly referred to her as a terrorist. She has both been called a terrorist by prison staff and told she belongs to a terrorist group, continuously being subject to retrospective punishment after the proscription of Palestine Action before, during and after her hunger strike which she ended in victory after 28 days of resistance. During T’s hunger strike, she was joined by two political prisoners in the US, Casey Goonan and Mohammed Malik in a stunning action of fearless and humbling solidarity transcending man-made imaginary borders.* *In her reflections on her hunger strike, she cites the Islamic proverb, “Our mercy and compassion for each other is like that of a body. When any limb aches, the whole body reels with sleeplessness and fever,” contemplating that, “…it is with this view we accept that global solidarity movements constitute one body. What affects one affects us all. Therefore in the same vein we say there is no freedom until Palestine is free.”* ## \-STATEMENT- I join my dear comrades in the hunger strike, returning to this position with more patience and determination than previous. You need energy to fight your case. Prison tried to dissuade me last time. I remind them this is a witch hunt, not a fair fight, and that behind the arrests of dissenting voices under counterterrorism powers, holding us on remand without trial for nearly two years and targeting protesters who condemn Palestinian suffering, is the palpably desperate attempt to force us all under the imperial boot of submission. But not even these threats and abuse of powers can undo the awakening we’ve had and the deep-rooted solidarity with our Palestinian brothers and sisters. Labelling us as terrorists only adds salt to the moral injury forced upon us all by Britain’s complicity in the ongoing genocide in Palestine. In 2009, Elbit Systems Ltd. spooled continuous footage of a simulated attack on a Palestinian village in order to showcase its unmanned drone surveillance and attack aircraft. Last year, its CEO, Bezhalel Machlis, boasted, the fact that our systems are in operational use in Israel helps us because our customers prefer ‘mature solutions’. ‘Mature solutions’ are a weasel phrase for tried, tested, proven to kill and dangerously lethal, the systematic genocide of Palestinians for profit. And our government, the MOD, is entertaining a £2.7 billion contract with Elbit Systems UK, rewarding them for an efficient and effective genocide. Its subsidiary, Elbit Systems UK, continues its manufacturing operations here in our country under our noses, and we demand that the government release the export licences for the last five years. Our demands are simple and I want it stated for the record that our collective strike should only be interpreted as a will to live, using nothing but our hunger to resist the imperial war machine. We are prepared to push to the very end for these rights. Any harm we sustain lies at the door of the government. Please act.