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href="https://www.palestineaction.org/london-hq-youth/">palestineaction.org</a>
<h1
class="reader-title">Activists
Shut Down London
HQ of Israel's
Largest Arms Firm</h1>
April 20, 2022</div>
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<p><strong>PRESS
RELEASE<br>
20/04/22<br>
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE</strong></p>
<p><strong><br>
</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Activists
from XR Youth,
taking action
under the
Palestine
Action banner,
have shut down
the London
headquarters
of Israel’s
largest arms
firm: Elbit
Systems</li>
<li>The
activists have
used fire
extinguishers
to spray the
premises in
blood-red
paint, and are
locked-on to
the entrance,
preventing
access or
operations at
the building</li>
<li>Action
taken in
solidarity
with the
victims of
Israeli
brutality in
Occupied
Palestine,
with the past
week having
seen Elbit
products used
against
worshippers
and civilians</li>
<li> </li>
</ul>
<p>Today,
several
members of XR
Youth
collaborating
with Palestine
Action, shut
down the
London
headquarters
of Elbit
Systems, at 77
Kingsway,
Holborn.
Activists have
sprayed the
site in
blood-red
paint,
symbolising
the bloodshed
facilitated
with
Elbit-manufactured
weaponry, and
have locked-on
to the
entrance of
the building,
forcing its
closure for
the day. This
action has
been taken to
show
solidarity
with the
people of
Palestine, who
during Ramadan
and Passover,
have been
crushed by
renewed
onslaughts of
violence by
Israel —
violence which
has escalated
even since
last May’s
attacks on the
Al-Aqsa mosque
and other
sites of
Palestinian
cultural
importance and
public life.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>This past
Saturday and
Sunday,
heavily armed
Israeli police
officers began
a brutal
attack on the
Al-Aqsa
mosque,
breaking
windows,
throwing
grenades, and
deploying tear
gas, which
were used on
peaceful
worshipers who
had come to
the mosque to
mark the holy
month of
Ramadan. Video
of officers
beating
children and
targeting
families have
been widely
circulated on
social media.
It is also
alleged that
officers
locked
worshipers
inside the
mosque.
Meanwhile,
within the
last 24 hours,
Israel has
been
bombarding the
Gaza strip and
its captive
population of
Palestinian
civilians.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>The people
of the UK, and
notably its
young people,
are therefore
taking action
to hit the
Israeli arms
industry and
its flagship
company Elbit
Systems where
it hurts.
Elbit Systems,
Palestine
Action’s
primary
target, are a
weapons
manufacturer
with 9 sites
in the UK.
Their products
are
instrumental
to the
escalation and
growing
fatalities of
a number of
international
conflicts.
Crucially,
they have been
incredibly
successful by
marketing
their weapons
products as
“battle-tested”.
In their
marketing,
they omit the
fact that
their weapons
are “tested”
on
Palestininan
civilians
before ever
being sold
commercially —
civilians who
are used as
cannon-fodder
so that Elbit
can corner the
market.
Through its
subsidiary IMI
Systems, Elbit
manufacture
the vast
majority of
small arms and
munitions,
including
baton rounds,
used by
Israeli forces
in attacks
such as those
seen this
week. The
Israeli-owned
firm also
supply the
Israeli
military with
85% of its
drones,
including the <em>Hermes</em>,
directly
facilitating
the constant
bombardment of
Palestinians.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>This is
just the
latest in a
sweep of
actions
undertaken by
Palestine
Actionists.
Just 5 days
ago, the group
shut
down Leicester’s
UAV Tactical
Systems, a
subsidiary of
Elbit’s, where
actionists
have confirmed
sightings of <em>Hermes </em>drones
in stages of
manufacture.
Palestine
Action
believes that
Elbit has no
right to
manufacture
its weapons of
mass murder in
the UK, nor
the right to
sell them in
the wider
world. Palestine
Action’s
mandate — and
that of the
young people
who have acted
today — is to
keep resisting
and taking
direct action
until Elbit
Systems has
been shut
down. </p>
<p><strong><br>
</strong></p>
<p><strong>ENDS</strong></p>
<p><strong><br>
</strong></p>
<p><strong>NOTES
TO EDITORS</strong></p>
<p><strong><br>
</strong></p>
<p>Please
Credit
Attached
Photos to
Calum Ford
(Free to use)</p>
<p>If you
would like any
further
information on
Palestine
action, please
contact <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:info@palestineaction.org">info@palestineaction.org</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Palestine
Action is a
direct-action
network of
groups and
individuals
formed with
the mandate of
taking direct
action against
Elbit Systems’
UK locations
at grassroots
level, calling
for them all
to be shut
down and for
the British
government to
end its
complicity in
Israeli
apartheid.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><strong>ELBIT
SYSTEMS/SOURCES</strong></p>
<p><strong><br>
</strong></p>
<p>Detail on
Al-Aqsa mosque
attacks: <a
href="https://mondoweiss.net/2022/04/israel-storms-al-aqsa-beats-palestinian-worshipers-to-make-way-for-jewish-settlers/">Israel
storms
Al-Aqsa, beats
Palestinian
worshipers to
make way for
Jewish
settlers –
Mondoweiss</a></p>
<p>Bombardment
of Gaza: <a
href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gaza-strip-israel-air-strikes-palestinian-rocket/">Israel
strikes Gaza
Strip in
response to
Palestinian
rocket as
tensions soar
in Jerusalem –
CBS News</a></p>
<p>Company
profile on
Elbit Systems,
including
quote by
Israeli
military
general: <a
href="https://whoprofits.org/company/elbit-systems/"
rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://whoprofits.org/company/elbit-systems/</a></p>
<p>More on the
death and
destruction
inflicted by
Elbit’s drones
upon Gaza: <a
href="https://corporatewatch.org/elbit-systems-company-profile-2/"
rel="noreferrer
noopener"
target="_blank"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://corporatewatch.org/elbit-systems-company-profile-2/</a></p>
<p>Elbit
surveillance
technology for
Israel’s
apartheid
wall: <a
href="https://www.facing-finance.org/en/database/cases/elbit-systems-surveillance-system-torch-for-the-separation-barrier-in-israelpalestine/"
rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.facing-finance.org/en/database/cases/elbit-systems-surveillance-system-torch-for-the-separation-barrier-in-israelpalestine/</a></p>
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