The UVF’s James Reid was arrested in 2022 (Crime World) and is currently awaiting trial on charges of blackmail and cocaine possession and distribution. His attempt to have the charges thrown out was rejected at the start of February (BelTel).
These graffiti are on North Boundary Street (in the lower Shankill, west Belfast) and the Ballysillan Road (north Belfast).
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“Israel is still a genocidal hole”. The peace plan for Gaza was signed on October 9th. Since then, 442 Palestinians have been killed, according to Al Jazeera’s tracker. The amount of food aid being allowed into the strip has improved in January, with 100% of the “minimum caloric need” being met for the first time since October 2023 (UN) but the humanitarian crisis remains “extremely serious” (UN).
This graffiti is at Camberwell Terrace just off the Antrim Road, north Belfast.
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Palestine Action was declared a “terrorist organisation” in July, 2025, after members broke into Brize Norton and spray-painted Air Force planes and breached an Elbit facility near Bristol and caused an estimated one million pounds-worth of damage (Canary) in 2024. (Elbit is an Israeli defence contractor with 16 sites in the UK – WP.)
Eight of the twenty-nine people held on charges related to these events began hunger-strikes in November and December, 2025. They are listed on the placard in the third image: Kamran Ahmed, Teuta Hoxha, Heba Muraisi, Umer Khalid, Qesser Zuhran, Amu Big, Lewie Chiaramello, Jon Cink.
Update: The last three strikers ended their fasts in January, claiming victory when a large government contract went to Raytheon rather than Elbit (CNN | Guardian).
The phrase “blessed are those who hunger for justice” goes back to the 1981 hunger strike, and the “five demands” to the blanket protest.
“The Five Demands: 1. End all censorship 2. Immediate bail 3. Right to fair trail 4. De-proscribe Palestine Action 5. Shut Elbit down.”
The “Green Brigade” is a group of Celtic ultras (web) – see also Ultras At Work.
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“Support Gaza”, “Human rights for Gaza”. Supper for Gazans on a placard and a tarp on the railings in Lecky Road, below the Bloody Sunday mural.
Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
The trailer with “Israeli war criminals” and an old stencil of “DUP, go back to work” is on Clooney Road at the Caw roundabout.
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“Bi herri, borroka bat – ETA [Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, a Basque separatist group]” – “Two peoples, one struggle”, in Basque, on the side of the Falls library in Sevastopol Street.
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Anti-immigrant graffiti on the wall of Mustardseed Christian Fellowship in Crimea Street, west Belfast
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“Victory to Kneecap” and “Free Palestine” on the shutters of the former West Belfast Partnership building on the Falls Road. For background see Seasaımıd Le Lıam Óg.
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“Death, death to the IOF” – Lasaır Dhearg [web]” – that is, the Israeli Occupation Force (as an alternative name for the “Israeli Defense Force”) in Gaza.
Palestinian deaths in Gaza now number about 60,000 (Al Jazeera) and reports that people are dying from starvation – about 100 so far (Al Jazeera) – and 1,000 more killed while seeking aid (NPR).
For the graffiti on the right (of the wide shot) see Seas Le Kneecap.
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This crude lettering is perhaps part of/an intermediate form of work-in-progress in Glen Parade, Andersonstown, west Belfast, replacing a Saoradh pro-Palestine piece. This wall has an interesting history: it was a graffiti-art wall for a decade, before being taken over in 2018. (See the Map for a complete history.)
“Brits out!” on the side wall.
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Brendan “Bik” McFarlane was imprisoned for life for the attack on the Bayardo Bar on the Shankill Road and took over as IRA OC in the Maze when Bobby Sands went on hunger-strike in 1981. He escaped the prison in 1983 and was extradited back to Northern Ireland from the Netherlands in 1986 and eventually paroled in 1997.
McFarlane died in February (2025) (BelTel). He was raised in Ardoyne, north Belfast, and this graffiti is on a hoarding on Ardoyne Avenue.
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