[News] Cry harder, Elbit: Palestine Action Shut UAV Engines for second time this week

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thecanary.co
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Cry harder, Elbit: Palestine Action SHUT UAV Engines for second time this
week
The Canary
November 27, 2024
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Palestine Action <https://www.thecanary.co/topics/palestine-action/> were
back in Staffordshire on Wednesday 27 November – blockading Elbit-supplying
UAV Engines factory for the second time in a matter of days; disrupting
Israel’s weapons supply chain in the process.

Following on from Palestine Action’s <https://palestineaction.org/>
blockade of UAV Engines on Monday 25 November
<https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/11/25/palestine-action-staffordshire-elbit/>,
when activists locked on inside vehicles, blocking both gates to the site,
others returned today, to once again disrupt the weapons factory:

[image: UAV Engines Palestine Action Elbit]
<https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/MPOPE_A693408-scaled.jpg>Lock-ons
were once again carried out inside vehicles that blocked the factory’s main
gate:
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[image: UAV engines Elbit Palestine Action]
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UAV manufactures engines for the killer drones
<https://uavenginesltd.co.uk/> of Elbit Systems, Israel’s biggest weapons
manufacturer. As well as producing engines for Elbit’s Hermes 450 drone,
which has played a central role in the Gaza Genocide, the UEL AR731
Wankel-type rotary engine, produced at Shenstone, is being used in the
Israeli Aerospace Industries (IMI) Harop Kamikase drone, which is currently
being upgraded to kill autonomously.

At Shenstone, cops faffed around – unsure of how to deal with Palestine
Action as usual. After several hours, they finally made arrests:
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Today’s action, and the one on Monday, came in the face of unprecedented
state repression.
Unparalleled state repression – thanks to Elbit and Israel

22 Palestine Action activists are currently being held in British prisons,
for resisting complicity in genocide, with some subject to repressive
‘counter terror’ powers, even though none of these political prisoners are
charged with any terrorist offence.

UAV’s Shenstone factory has been targeted since the beginning of Palestine
Action’s four-year long direct action campaign, and since October 7th 2023,
we have shut the site down repeatedly, with blockades, occupations, and
vehicular lock-ons. Our relentless commitment to closing them down, has led
to the Staffordshire firm reporting its first ever operating loss.

A spokesperson for Palestine Action said:

As the British government’s complicity in the Gaza genocide becomes more
and more exposed, their answer is repression, and attempting to intimidate
those fighting to end their complicity. In the face of this repression, our
direct action campaign will not waver, our political prisoners remain
strong, and history will judge those with blood on their hands, and those
fighting to end the genocide.

*Featured image and additional images via Martin Pope*
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