On 22 December, a man named Olax from the Netherlands was arrested after throwing a stone through the window of the UK embassy in The Hague.

The stone carried the message, “Free the Filton 24” in reference to pro-Palestine activists imprisoned by the Starmer government for over a year and a half. These prisoners are being held for interrupting the production of weapons which Israel uses to kill Palestinian civilians.

Olax recorded a video statement prior to carrying out his protest. In the video, he spoke on behalf of UK political prisoners and the countless Palestinian civilians, many of them children, who have been murdered by Israeli forces. His message was also a call of solidarity for the hunger-strikers of the Filton group, who are protesting the UK government’s complicity in genocide and Starmer’s ongoing assault on UK citizens’ rights to stand against Israel’s actions in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Olax explained that with all other efforts to prevent the killing of innocent civilians by Israel and its government allies failing, he felt he had no other choice but to act.

Translation and subtitles by Skwawkbox:

The UK government and the state-corporate ‘mainstream’ media are ignoring the hunger strike and Starmer’s war on UK rights, journalism and democracy. But others around the world are not — including but not limited to Olax.

Featured image via Olax

By Skwawkbox

This post was originally published on Canary.