[News] “People against genocide” block Israeli Elbit’s Filton weapons factory

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“People against genocide” block Israeli Elbit’s Filton weapons factory
Skwawkbox
February 26, 2026
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Image: Mark Simmons Photography, used with permission.

Activists from action group “People against Genocide” have used modified
Transit vans to block the entrance to an Israeli weapons factory. Access to
the Elbit Systems’ Filton factory was blocked as of 7am today. Palestine
Action activists were jailed for over eighteen months
<https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/12/18/hunger-strikers-mainstream-media/>
without trial for damaging the same factory in August 2024. It was among
the pro-Israel groups that pressured the Starmer government to mendaciously
<https://skwawkbox.org/2025/08/13/jtac-intelligence-group-report-proves-cooper-is-lying-about-palestine-action/>
‘proscribe
<https://skwawkbox.org/2025/08/04/breaking-jewish-delegation-to-deliver-letter-to-starmer-tomorrow-demanding-end-to-israels-gaza-genocide/>‘
Palestine Action as a ‘terrorist’ group.

Members of People Against Genocide “locked on” inside one vehicle while
others climbed on top of the second van to blockade the site.

Elbit claims that its Filton facility is a research, development, and
manufacturing centre. However, previous raids found the military quadcopter
drones awaiting shipment to Israel. The occupying force uses these lethal
quadcopter drones to murder Palestinians, and, in total, Elbit supplies the
occupation with 85 percent of its killer drone fleet.

The Filton protest is part of a wider campaign against firms enabling
Israel’s genocide. On 25 February 2026, People Against Genocide activists
sprayed the front of the Birmingham offices of Chubb Insurance, a week
after targeting Chubb’s London office. Chubb insures Elbit subsidiary UAV
Engines, which manufactures engines for Israel’s drone fleet. Without
insurance, UAV could not produce these engines in the UK.

A spokesperson for People Against Genocide said of today’s action:

Yesterday we were in Birmingham, hitting Elbit’s insurer. Today, we strike
at them directly, by shutting down their key facility at Filton, Bristol.
While the genocide of the Palestinians continues, we will not rest in terms
of targeting the British-based companies and facilities, who contribute to
these war crimes. Elbit, it is time to go!

The very name, People against Genocide, was likely chosen to shame the
Starmer regime if it tries to proscribe the group too.

Judge Justice Chamberlain said last year that while Palestine Action was
proscribed, the ban does not prevent other groups or individuals
undertaking similar actions.

The Palestine Action ban has been ruled unlawful
<https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/02/13/palestine-action-court-zionist/>,
but remains in place while the Home Office appeals
<https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/02/25/palestine-action-unbanning/>
the decision.

*Featured image via the Canary*
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