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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">While most of us slept, Palestine Action was a bit busy derailing the activities of two genocide-complicit companies</h1>
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<p><a href="https://www.thecanary.co/topics/palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestine</a> Action has targeted two companies complicit in <a href="https://www.thecanary.co/topics/israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israel</a>‘s ongoing genocide in Gaza in one night, due to their association with weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.</p>
<h2>Palestine Action: two hits in one night – both linked to Elbit</h2>
<p>Overnight on Wednesday 10 April, activists from <a href="https://www.thecanary.co/?s=Palestine+Action" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestine Action</a>
targeted ADS Group’s London office and Avnet’s and EBV Elektronik’s
facility in Waltham Park, Berkshire. Red paint was sprayed across ADS
Groups office and a message was spray painting which read ‘Eid Mubarak
Gaza’ and ‘ADS Drop Elbit’:</p>
<p>In Berkshire, activists similarly covered the premises in red paint and shattered windows:</p><img src="cid:ii_luub35ae0" alt="image03-2-2048x1330.jpg" width="408" height="265"><br><img src="cid:ii_luub3k4t1" alt="image01-3-2048x1365.jpg" width="408" height="272"><br><img src="cid:ii_luub3wts2" alt="image12-2-2048x1365.jpg" width="408" height="272"><br>
<p><a href="https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image03-2-scaled.jpg"><img alt="A building doused in red paint" width="1500" height="974" src="https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image03-2-scaled.jpg" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img"></a></p><p></p>
<p>ADS Group, Avnet and EBV Elektronik all profit from working with Israel’s largest weapons firm, Elbit Systems. Elbit Systems <a href="https://investigate.afsc.org/company/elbit-systems" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supply</a> the
Israeli military with 85% of their drone fleet and land-based
equipment, as well as all of their small calibre ammunitions (bullets).</p>
<p>In addition, Elbit’s production of munitions, bombs, missiles and digital warfare has been described <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEexR-3VrjI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">by the CEO</a> as crucial to enabling the Gaza genocide.</p>
<p>Specifically, ADS Group act as representatives and advocates of the
world’s largest arms dealers. ADS’ business is the promotion of
companies such as <a href="https://www.adsgroup.org.uk/members/elbit-systems-uk-ltd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elbit Systems</a> within <a href="https://www.adsgroup.org.uk/services/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">government</a> and
at arms fairs. Acting to facilitate the business of Israel’s largest
weapons company – and promoting them with lobbying – ADS Group are
deeply complicit in the ongoing Gaza genocide.</p>
<p>Avnet, owners of EBV Elektronik, describe themselves as a ‘<a href="https://news.avnet.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2023/Avnet-Insights-Survey-Shows-Engineers-Have-Reached-a-Turning-Point/default.aspx#:~:text=global%2520customer%2520database.-,About%2520Avnet,and%2520from%2520prototype%2520to%2520production." target="_blank" rel="noopener">leading</a> global technology distributor’ and boast of their involvement in the production of the <a href="https://my.avnet.com/emea/solutions/markets/aerospace-and-defense/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">F-35 lightning</a> programme. The F-35 fighter jet is frequently used by the Israeli military to commit <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/dutch-court-orders-halt-export-f-35-jet-parts-israel-2024-02-12/#:~:text=The%2520appeals%2520court%2520also%2520said,the%2520permit%2520for%2520the%2520exports." target="_blank" rel="noopener">massacres</a> in Gaza. In addition, the company supplies electronics for Elbit Systems weaponry and has been operating in Israel since <a href="https://my.avnet.com/emea/about-us/avnet-companies/avnet-in-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2001</a>.</p>
<h2>Israel: fomenting the ‘worst Ramadan’ Palestinians have ‘ever lived’</h2>
<p>Since 7 October, Israel has killed at least 33,360 Palestinians and injured over <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/33360-palestinians-killed-israels-military-offensive-gaza-since-oct7-2024-04-09/#:~:text=April%209%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20At,health%20ministry%20reported%20on%20Tuesday." target="_blank" rel="noopener">75,993</a>.
As Eid Al-Fitr begins, Palestinians will struggle to commemorate this
religious holiday considering the ongoing brutality they are facing.</p>
<p>“There is no joy or appetite for celebrating the holy occasion,” Ahmed Ismail, a shopkeeper in Rafah, told <em><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/10/israels-war-on-gaza-live-israel-bombards-gaza-kills-14-in-nuseirat-camp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Al Jazeera</a></em>. “Even children have no interest in toys as they did in the past. This is the worst season we have ever lived.”</p>
<p><em>Featured image and additional images via Palestine Action</em></p></div><br></div></div></div>
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