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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">UK's Palestine Action blocks Elbit Systems' Bristol HQ</h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time" dir="ltr">February 15, 2024<br></div>
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pro-Palestine direct action group Palestine Action blocks arms
manufacturer Elbit Systems' Bristol Headquarters as "Israel" continues
its genocide across the Gaza Strip.</p><img src="cid:ii_lsngq59i0" alt="39928545-3b10-48c5-9997-27c29f800a3b.png" width="444" height="261"><br><div><ul id="gmail-content-slick-0"><div aria-hidden="false"><li>
Screengrab from video footage showing the Palestine Action
activists locked together in front of Elbit Systems HQ in Bristol,
England, as the police warns them to disperse on February 15, 2024.
(Palestine Action)
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<p>Amid the ongoing Israeli occupation's genocide of the Palestinian
people of the Gaza Strip, pro-Palestine activists across the UK have
intensified their efforts to <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/activists-successfully-pressure-fisher-german-to-drop-elbit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disrupt the Israeli war machine</a>.</p>
<p>According to a report from British newspaper <em>Morning Star,</em>
on Wednesday, activists associated with Palestine Action, a UK-based
pro-Palestinian protest network, barricaded the entrance to Elbit
Systems, "Israel’s" largest weapons firm. The activists, focused on
direct action tactics, blocked the firm's entrance by locking themselves
together.</p>
<p>Elbit Systems is known for supplying the Israeli occupation forces
with drones, munitions, combat vehicles, missiles, and various other
types of weaponry. According to the daily, "The majority of their arms
are marketed as 'battle-tested,' meaning they have been deployed in
bombardments against the Palestinian people."</p>
<h2>'Up to people to take direct action'</h2>
<p>A spokesperson for <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/palestine-action-wins--not-guilty--on-12-charges-in-elbit-ei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestine Action emphasized</a>
the necessity for direct action to shut down Elbit, stating, "While
Israeli weapons companies — which assist in occupying, displacing, and
massacring the people in Gaza — operate on our doorstep, it’s up to the
people to take direct action to shut Elbit down," adding "Every other
method — including marches, petitions, and lobbying — has failed to end
British complicity in the occupation."</p>
<p>The spokesperson expressed frustration with conventional methods like
marches, petitions, and lobbying, asserting that these have failed to
end British complicity in the occupation.</p>
<p>In a symbolic gesture, activists from the group also covered the
Manchester offices of Bank of New York Mellon, an American banking and
financial services corporation, in red paint. This act aimed to
symbolize the complicity of the bank in Palestinian bloodshed given it
has invested over $12 million in Elbit systems.</p>
<h2>Elbit Systems UK and Elbit Systems Ltd.</h2>
<p>Back in January, and during an early-morning demonstration, <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/pro-palestine-protests-renewed-outside-elbit-hqs-in-bristol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dozens of protesters</a>
reportedly "shut down" the Bristol HQ as well. This was initiated by
campaigners from Palestine Action who have targeted the Elbit
headquarters in Little Stoke.</p>
<p>Protesters targeted several UK sites of the company that describes
itself as a "defense, technology, and aerospace company working on a
range of technologies for both military and civilian applications."</p>
<p>Elbit Systems UK is part of Elbit Systems Ltd, which makes drones and
other military equipment, and has contracts with the Israeli
occupation.</p>
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<a href="https://alpha-en-media.almayadeen.net/archive/image/2024/1/18/d4f7dd0d-547d-40c8-98db-6f2688644a19.png?width=1000" tabindex="0"><img src="https://alpha-en-media.almayadeen.net/archive/image/2024/1/18/d4f7dd0d-547d-40c8-98db-6f2688644a19.png?width=1000&preset=w750" alt="Companies House UK, listing 'Elbit Systems Ltd' as the person of control of 'Elbit Systems UK'. Jan 18,2024." class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img"></a>
Companies House UK, listing 'Elbit Systems Ltd' as the person of control of 'Elbit Systems UK'. January 18, 2024.
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<p>Companies House UK, listing Elbit Systems Ltd as the person of control of Elbit Systems UK, Jan 18, 2024</p>
<p>"Disrupting Israel's military supply chain through direct action and
community mobilization is a crucial and necessary tactic to deploy as
our Palestinian siblings are under fire by Elbit's weaponry. We do not
stand for genocide enablers on our doorstep, and we've once again made
it clear that Elbit is not welcome in Bristol or anywhere on British
soil," a Palestine Action spokesperson stated.</p>
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