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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Protesters seize Israel weapons
manufacture in UK as bombs rain on Gaza</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">May 19, 2021</div>
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<p>As Israel continues to bombard Gaza, direct-action
protest group, Palestine Action, has seized control of
one of the buildings belonging to Israel's most
advanced weapons manufacture, Elbit Systems.</p>
<p>Palestine Action have occupied Elbit's factory, UAV
Tactical Systems in Leicester and chained the gates
shut, disrupting the company's production of arms and
military technology. Activists have taken direct
action in response to Elbit's funnelling of arms to
the Israeli occupation force, which the group said are
committing war crimes in Gaza.</p>
<p>This action comes as Israel continues its bombardment
of Gaza, killing over 210, including 61 children, and
wounded over 1,500.</p>
<p>"With the IDF targeting civilian areas, healthcare
premises and key infrastructure, the war crimes being
committed rely on technology produced at Elbit sites
across the UK," said the group.</p>
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href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210505-australia-military-to-stop-using-israel-defence-system/"
moz-do-not-send="true">Australia military to stop
using Israel defence system</a></strong></p>
<p>Palestine Action seized control of the Leicester
factory of Elbit subsidiary UAV Tactical Systems
earlier today. "Activists scaled the roof, locked the
factory gates, and are preventing access and stopping
the production of deadly arms. The occupation aims to
be as disruptive as possible; these activists are
determined to prevent Elbit from resuming its business
of bloodshed," Palestine Action said.</p>
<p>This is the first time Palestine Action has struck at
Elbit's Leicester site, which is run by Elbit-Thales
joint venture UAV Tactical Systems. The company is
said to manufacture the Hermes drones used extensively
by the Israeli army – made in Britain and used in
Gaza, Columbia, Azerbaijan and elsewhere. The site is
also believed to produce the Watchkeeper drones
employed in droves by the UK Military and Border
force, having been used to inflict death upon Afghans
and Iraqis and surveil refugees in the Channel.</p>
<p>"Palestine Action will continue disrupting Elbit's
conveyor belt of death, preventing any more UK-made
weaponry from finding its way into the hands of the
Israeli military and its brutal police forces, where
it would be used to commit even more war crimes," the
group said in a press release.</p>
<p>"By successfully acting to #ShutElbitDown these
conscientious actionists have shown that the UK's
complicity in the ethnic cleansing and murder of
Palestinian civilians will not stand."</p>
<p><strong>READ: <a title="Gaza suffers $244m in losses
due to Israel bombs, report says"
href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210519-gaza-suffers-244m-in-losses-due-to-israel-bombs-report-says/"
moz-do-not-send="true">Gaza suffers $244m in
losses due to Israel bombs, report says</a></strong></p>
<p>Palestine Action has declared that actions will
continue to escalate, stating: "Today's action shows
that it is entirely within our power to stop the
production of brutal machinery which is fuelling war
crimes in Palestine. The past week has shown the
relentless death and destruction that Israeli forces
can and will inflict with UK-made munitions and
military technology. It is the duty of anyone who has
been rightly appalled by these atrocities to stand up
and take action, to prevent the Israeli war machine
receiving any more armaments produced in this
country."</p>
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