DOZENS of campaigners have converged on the Ministry of Defence (MoD) offices in Glasgow in solidarity with the last Palestine Action hunger striker.

The action was organised by Mothers Against Genocide, Scotland Stop Arming Israel and Scottish Friends of the Hunger Strikers to show support for Umer Khalid.

Mr Khalid, 22, is now in his fourth day of a thirst strike at HMP Wormwood Scrubs, where he is being held while awaiting trial.

Protesters picketed Kentigern House in Glasgow’s Brown Street, with some managing to gain access to the building and occupy its lobby to chants of “MoD, shame on you, you’ve got blood on your hands too” and calls for the ministry “release the spy plane footage.”

Among Mr Khalid’s demands are the release of surveillance footage taken by the RAF during the murders of British aid workers in Gaza in April 2024, the unbanning of Palestine Action and a fair trial for himself

“I refuse to accept the state’s unwillingness to negotiate,” he has said.

Helen, a careworker who attended the Glasgow protest, said: “I’m here because I know the government’s banking on all of us to forget.

“To forget that it’s holding young people for over a year without trial, for doing what they could to stop a live-streamed genocide.

“To forget a genocide funded by our taxes in Scotland too. To forget that they still fly spy planes over Gaza and deny it flat out.

“I’ve seen places like HSBC in town get smashed to bits for their role in funding this genocide.

“We’re not going to forget and we’re not going anywhere.”

The MoD was contacted for comment.