The Palestine Action hunger strikers close to death
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🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:04.0 | Today, the Palestine Action hunger strikers close to death. |
| 0:18.0 | Cameron is my younger brother. So the youngest out of all of us, there's three siblings. |
| 0:25.2 | And my mom describes him as like the kid that used to hide behind her clothes, who'd hide behind |
| 0:30.6 | her dress and he'd be really shy about coming out in front of people. But he was the son that |
| 0:36.0 | made her laugh. And so they always found him |
| 0:39.2 | as the sort of fun one, but the one they had to protect. Cameron Ahmed is just 28 years old. |
| 0:47.1 | Growing up, he often refused to listen to his parents when they said, don't get involved, |
| 0:52.2 | just walk away when fights broke out in school. |
| 0:55.3 | I remember my brother just being like, no, how can I watch someone get hurt and not say |
| 0:59.7 | something? And he didn't care about what could potentially happen to him. He didn't care |
| 1:04.8 | about his consequences. He was only concerned about making sure that the other person was okay. |
| 1:10.8 | This is his sister, Shemina. Even though he's the youngest, he's... He was only concerned about making sure that the other person was okay. |
| 1:12.6 | This is his sister, Shemina. |
| 1:20.3 | Even though he's the youngest, he's been the most, I guess, like, spiritual person that I know. |
| 1:23.5 | He's a person that I go to for advice. |
| 1:30.7 | There's a level of maturity that he has, that I aspire for in his calmness and his demeanour. |
| 1:37.4 | Cameron was arrested in a dawn raid on the 19th of November, 2024. |
| 1:45.5 | He is one of 24 prisoners awaiting trial for allegedly causing over £1 million worth of damage to a research centre in Gloucestershire owned by the Israeli weapons manufacturer, Elbit Systems. |
| 1:51.7 | He's been on hunger strike at HMP Pentonville for 59 days. He is one of three remaining |
| 1:58.8 | Palestine action activists refusing food in protest. |
| 2:03.4 | The Guardian's Harun Sadiq has been in touch with him. |
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