A list of actions you can take to support Hunger Strikers, compiled by Prisoners for Palestine

Prisoners for Palestine is a prisoner-led collective in the UK representing all those detained under charges related to Palestinian liberation. They coordinate with activists, organisers and supporters to continue resistance from both sides of the prison walls. With their solidarity, they aim to combat the isolation and hopelessness that the prison system attempts to impose on prisoners.

This is an ad-hoc group of volunteers who have loved ones in Gaza. Their goal is to give direct mutual aid to help displaced & distressed families meet their basic needs during these catastrophic times. They aim to cultivate and strengthen relations with each other and build community with those in solidarity with our struggle for liberation. "We first started in November, our main focus was supporting multiple teams of our family members in cooking for hundreds of displaced families in Rafah, as well as providing clean water delivery, blankets, winter clothing, and tents. Since the invasion of Rafah, we began distributing direct cash aid to families through the middle and northern areas, and more recently, weekly deliveries of vegetables and chicken, as well as other initiatives to provide basic needs, clothing, slippers, etc. We have fixed sewage systems, built and distributes clay ovens, supported the revival of a school for young children, and basically follow the lead of our teams on the ground to provide what they know is needed most at any given time. We are also supporting projects and people in the north where food has become scarce."

Funds for Gaza started in February 2024, in response to the genocide in Gaza. Amidst continued destruction and displacement, Palestinians in Gaza need our support for basic needs like food, medical expenses, and shelter. All of the featured campaigns on this page have been verified by the team behind Let's Talk Palestine, and all funds raised are directed to Palestinians in Gaza.

A list of things you can do for Palestine at home, or wherever you are, regularly updated by Disabled People for a Free Palestine (@disabledpeople4pal), including email templates, petitions, ways to contribute to fundraisers and accounts to follow.

This visual explores various ways that Israeli policies of settler colonialism and apartheid deny Palestinian food sovereignty.

This policy brief traces the origins of food sovereignty and the challenges Palestinians face to effectively put the framework into practice. The brief argues that doing so will help better recontextualize the resistance economy today, thus paving the way for establishing a more contentious economic order.

Over the past year, many farmers in Gaza have had to abandon their land, crops and way of life due to Israeli bombing and evacuation orders. Instead of producing their own food, they, like everyone else in Gaza, have become dependent on the little humanitarian aid allowed in as Israel deliberately destroys Palestinians’ self-sufficiency. And they have also become the targets and victims of Israel’s genocide.

A Palestinian doctor tries to save severely malnourished children amid Israel’s US-backed illegal siege on Gaza. Ahmed Nasser is one of a handful of doctors in north Gaza treating scores of children for malnutrition. The odds of saving lives are against him as he does not have the resources he needs. Israel has cut off food, fuel and water, resulting in a man-made famine that is unprecedented in its scale and pace. Every Palestinian in Gaza is food insecure and dozens have died from dehydration and malnutrition.

Foragers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, it employs fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. The restrictions prohibit the collection of the artichoke-like ’akkoub and za’atar (thyme), and have resulted in fines and trials for hundreds caught collecting these native plants.

In a time when food was scarce and desperation loomed, a passionate young agricultural engineer, Yousef Abu Rabia, refused to succumb to despair. Instead, he took bold action, planting seeds with unwavering faith, effectively defying the siege’s strategy of starvation. He understood that each seed represented not only nourishment but also the potential for renewal and growth. With every planting, he was not merely cultivating crops; he was sowing hope and resilience into the hearts of his community.

In 1948, as Palestinians faced what would be known as the 'catastrophe', farmers endured destruction, loss, exile and death

Even before the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, Zionists and Israeli propaganda have been depicting Palestinians as people “without culture”. Indeed, the Israeli state took upon itself to civilise the Palestinians who remained inside the 1948 war borders. Hence, they forbid these latter to study their own culture or to remember their immediate past: their memory was considered as a dangerous weapon that had to be suppressed and controlled. Culture is essential for the survival of a group of people identifying as one and essential to being seen as a distinctive (political) entity. When a group appropriates the culture of another group it threatens the cultural and political survival of this group.

Beyond their simple colours and shapes, watermelons, oranges, olives and eggplants carry the weight of Palestinian history, shared culture, connection to the land and resistance.

These photos from the British Mandate Jerusalemites (BMJ) Photo Library on Facebook might otherwise be largely unremarkable, but they are part of a digital archive of life in Palestine before the Nakba, or Catastrophe, of 1948 when the creation of Israel led to the expulsion of more than 750,000 Palestinians from villages and towns that their ancestors had lived in for centuries.

Palestine’s Ghassan Kanafani, a writer, artist, journalist and politico has left a lasting legacy in the Arab world. He was a Palestinian writer who, through books like Men in the Sun, humanised the Palestinian condition of dispossession and displacement. He was, however, first and foremost a journalist.

On October 2021, Israeli settlers have committed violent, daily attacks against Palestinian villages and residents harvesting their olive trees over the past week. The attacks, which include beatings of farmers and destruction of trees, preceded the formal start of the olive harvest season on October 12 in the occupied West Bank, but intensified in number over the past week.

Over the years, Palestinians have found various ways to depict and preserve their heritage, as a form of resistance. This has been done through the art of tatreez, a traditional folk embroidery, and through songs and folklore, as well as through food and art, among other things. For many Palestinians, symbols are important in uniting and solidifying their identity. Around Palestine’s diverse and lush green cities, plants and flowers have become representative of the struggle under occupation, and are seen as a symbol of hope for a better future and a return to their homeland. Here, Middle East Eye explores some of the plants that bloom around Palestine, and what they have come to symbolise to people there.

For the purposes of this paper, we are defining the Resistance Economy (RE) as an institutionalized form of economic struggle that envisages a transitional reorganization of the economy and social relations to be in harmony with the political requirements and objectives of the Palestinian national liberation process. In other words, RE is a politically driven economic development strategy underpinned by a set of social values and norms. Therefore, by its very nature, RE is a multifunctional and multidimensional strategy that aims to lay the foundation for the emergence of an emancipatory social order and solid political base in order to assist Palestinians in their struggle to achieve liberation and self-determination. Thus, the use of the term “resistance” in this paper refers to its economic and social dimensions and not its military ones.

In A Quiet Revolution , renowned civil rights activist Mary Elizabeth King questions the prevailing wisdom that the first Palestinian Intifada was defined by violence. She argues that initially, the uprising was characterized by a massive nonviolent social mobilization, rooted in popular committees often steered by women. These committees adopted strategies that began to lead to political results -- among them the beginnings of a negotiated settlement. King traces the tragic movement away from peaceful protest following the killing of four Palestinian laborers in Gaza, and charts the PLOs increasing contempt for nonviolent struggle. She details the complicity of the media in this escalation of violence -- TV crews would not cover peaceful protests, but Palestinian boys throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers would attract foreign cameras. King draws upon the history of non-violent movements and argues that only through nonviolent strategies can a negotiated peace be achieved with Israel. King believes that the residual knowledge of the power of nonviolent resistance from the first Intifada will provide the bedrock upon which to build this eventual, lasting peace.

To encourage the spread of #ReadPalestine, signatories of the Publishers for Palestine letter of solidarity have organized a Free Palestine Reading List. Participating publishers are offering one of their e-book titles for free download from November 29 to December 5; all titles will be available through the Publishers for Palestine website beginning November 29.

Grassroots movement to support & amplify aid requests of Palestinian families.

The Watermelon Index is a tool for worker-led resistance against the occupation and genocide in Palestine. It is a database of companies complicit in Israeli crimes and worker campaigns against them.

Hasbara Tracker is working on documenting and debunking claims made by the Israeli regime during its most recent — and unprecedented — genocidal campaign in Gaza since 7 Oct, 2023. The Israeli settler-colony continues to spread disinformation to manufacture consent for ethnic cleansing and land theft, as it has since the Nakba. Our aim is to centralise this information. ‘Hasbara’ is a Hebrew term that translates to ‘explanation’ or ‘public relations’ in English. It refers to public relations efforts by the Israeli settler project aimed at promoting a positive image of itself by whitewashing its military occupation, apartheid system and ongoing dispossession of Palestine. Hasbara includes various forms of communication, such as media outreach, social media campaigns, and other strategies to shape public opinion in favour of the Israeli state, and involves manipulation of information, spreading propaganda, and stifling dissenting voices.

This poem emerged from a conversation about the cultural meaning of hunger and feasting, and how our relationship with food is often directly linked with the political landscape of our lives—the desperation, the coveting, the glut.