Qesser Zuhrah was experiencing worsening chest pains and was told by a nurse ‘you don’t decide if you go to hospital, I do'
The friends of a Palestine Action-affiliated prisoner currently on hunger strike say she was left to lie on her cell floor with worsening chest pains while the prison refused repeated requests to call an ambulance.
Qesser Zuhrah, who is currently being held at HMP Bronzefield, has not eaten for more than 41 days after she joined a rolling hunger strike launched by imprisoned Palestine Action-affiliated prisoners over their treatment and the proscription of the direct action group.
The action is considered to be the biggest in the UK since the 1981 hunger strike by Irish Republican prisoners, led by Bobby Sands in Northern Ireland.
The prisoners, all accused of involvement with Palestine Action before it was proscribed in July, will have been in jail for over a year by the time they stand trial. Zuhrah will have spent 17 months awaiting trial by her court date.
Zuhrah’s friend, Niamh Grant, reported that Zuhrah had called her at 8:30pm “feeling dizzy and light-headed” with “chest pain radiating to her neck and shoulder”, shortness of breath and shaking limbs.
“She lay down on the floor and couldn’t get up,” Grant told Middle East Eye.
Ella Moulsdale, Zuhrah’s next of kin, said that Zuhrah had repeatedly buzzed for a nurse and begged her to conduct basic medical tests.
“As she continued to be ignored, she then started to beg for an ambulance to come because she knew that something was happening,” Moulsdale said.
A prison officer told her to wait for the night nurse to start her shift at 11pm.
At 10:30pm the nurse arrived to take her vitals – a series of tests to measure key bodily functions – and an ECG (electrocardiogram) test. She said she would be back in 10 minutes with the test results.
Hours passed – she did not return. Zuhrah remained immobile on the cell floor.
By 12:30am, the nurse had still not returned, so Zuhrah buzzed prison medical staff for help, saying “Can you ring an ambulance? I’m scared”. They hung up on her.
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More than a thousand Palestinians have died in the Gaza Strip while waiting for medical evacuation permits from Israel between July 2024 and late November this year, the World Health Organisation said Friday.
Rick Peeperkorn, the WHO representative for the occupied Palestinian territories, told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York that 1,092 patients died between July 2024 and 28 November 2025, citing Gaza’s health authorities.
But he said the figure was likely an underestimate, based only on reported deaths. He added that the WHO "has called on more countries to accept patients from Gaza and for medical evacuation operations to resume to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem."
According to Peeperkorn, 18 out of Gaza’s 36 hospitals and 43 per cent of primary healthcare centres were only partially functioning, while there was a severe shortage of essential medicines and medical supplies needed to treat heart disease and other illnesses.
Despite improved approval rates for supplies destined for Gaza, Peeperkorn said the process of bringing medicines and medical equipment into the territory remained "slow and unnecessarily complicated."
https://www.newarab.com/news/over-1000-palestinians-died-awaiting-medical-evacuations-who
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Far-right Israeli settlers crossed into the Gaza Strip this week in an explicit attempt to seize Palestinian land, entering the northern areas of Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun, where Israel had previously built illegal settlements on confiscated land before dismantling them during the 2005 disengagement.
Israeli media and videos from the scene showed dozens of extremist settler activists breaching the boundary fence and moving into destroyed lands north of Beit Lahia.
These areas, historically belonging to Palestinian families from Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun, were expropriated during the occupation and later incorporated into a settlement bloc that fragmented both areas. The settlers erected tents and planted an olive tree, according to media reports.
In a video filmed at the location, one settler said: "The entire land of Israel is ours, and after the terrible massacre we experienced, we need to understand this and internalise it and treat the enemy accordingly. Take territory, occupy and settle."
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Far-right Israeli settlers crossed into the Gaza Strip this week in an explicit attempt to seize Palestinian land, entering the northern areas of Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun, where Israel had previously built illegal settlements on confiscated land before dismantling them during the 2005 disengagement.
Israeli media and videos from the scene showed dozens of extremist settler activists breaching the boundary fence and moving into destroyed lands north of Beit Lahia.
These areas, historically belonging to Palestinian families from Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun, were expropriated during the occupation and later incorporated into a settlement bloc that fragmented both areas.
The settlers erected tents and planted an olive tree, according to media reports.
In a video filmed at the location, one settler said: "The entire land of Israel is ours, and after the terrible massacre we experienced, we need to understand this and internalise it and treat the enemy accordingly. Take territory, occupy and settle."
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-settlers-cross-gaza-seize-palestinian-land
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