Two activists from anti-Israel group Palestine Action were reportedly arrested Friday in central London after spraying a Ministry of Justice building with red paint to demand that Justice Minister David Lammy agree to meet with fellow activists currently on hunger strike.

The two suspects were protesting the treatment of eight Palestine Action activists, who have been held in custody for more than a year before trial and have been conducting hunger strikes ranging from nine to forty days, they told the Guardian. Five have been hospitalized.

In a video posted online, one activist said that the group has tried to meet with Lammy but that he “continues to ignore the friends and family, the lawyers of the hunger strikers. He ignores the fact that their lives are [in] imminent danger.”

Several Palestine Action activists have been arrested in the last year and are awaiting trial.

Six are on trial over what prosecutors have described as a meticulously planned assault by the group on the Elbit Systems UK........

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