These young people walking out of their cells today articulated the love billions feel for the people of Gaza with their hands. They are not walking out from behind the wall. They are walking out from cracks in the wall which they made with their own hands. They were sustained by thoughts, dreams and prayers for Palestine and songs of pride sung to them through the bars of their windows. Because for over 500 days inside the iron belly, not once did they stop beating the walls which confined them. They broke through the walls which were meant to break them. In a time when the best of humanity was being killed by the worst of humanity and being watched by the rest of humanity, they refused to watch. But, rather than looking away, they stepped into the images they saw on their phones as an act of love. They are accused of the greatest compliment a person could be paid in genocidal times. They are accused of standing between the bombs and the people under them. And rather than incarceration isolating them from the world, it brought them closer to Gaza and firmly established their presence inside the chest of humanity. Their story will be told for generations to come as a testimony to the beauty of the human spirit. We are one body, but you are the heartbeat. Bless your beautiful hands.

Not a single conviction has been delivered for the first 6 of the Filton 24 who were accused of shutting down Israel's largest arms firm Elbit Systems in Bristol. After over 500 days in jail. They stood up for Gaza, and won.