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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Palestine Action blockade Elbit's Bristol HQ and target banks in Manchester <br><span style="font-weight:normal"><font size="1">June 24, 2024</font></span><br></h1></div>
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<div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div id="gmail-single-wrapper" tabindex="-1"><div><div><h3>Activists step up actions against arms company in a third week of targeted disruption</h3><p>Palestine
Action says seven of its activists attached themselves this morning to
vehicles and blocked the entrance to Elbit Systems’ UK headquarters. Two
other groups targeted the offices of JP Morgan Chase and a Barclays
Bank branch in Altrincham overnight.</p><p>Elbit’s Bristol HQ is used by the company to oversee its British operations, and has been targeted by Palestine action on <a href="https://www.palestineaction.org/blockade-elbits-bristol-hq/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">many</a> <a href="https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2024/05/03/palestine-action-van-elbit-bristol/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">previous</a> <a href="https://palestineaction.org/palestine-action-shut-down-elbits-bristol-hq-and-shenstone-weapons-factory/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">occasions</a>.
“Elbit Systems uses Gaza as a laboratory to develop their weaponry, a
business model which has no place in any society”, said the group. “By
arming Israel and allowing Elbit to operate in this country, our
political establishment have failed to abide by their legal and moral
obligations to end complicity in the Gaza genocide”.</p><p>Last week, activists <a href="https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/06/17/palestine-action-targets-kent-arms-factory-and-scotiabank-offices-in-london/">invaded the Kent premises of Instro Precision</a>, where thay began “dismantling technology, machinery and parts” involved in the “manufacture of scopes, sights, and targeting <a href="https://caat.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/11/Fact-sheet-re-Gaza-2023-11-14.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">equipment</a> for Israel’s exterminationist military”. Police put it to arrestees that had caused the factory <a href="https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/06/19/arms-factory-invaders-told-they-caused-1million-in-damage/">£1million in damage</a>. Factories in <a href="https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/04/04/palestine-action-block-elbits-shenstone-arms-factory/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Staffordshire</a> and <a href="https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/04/11/palestine-action-blockade-elbits-leicester-drone-factory/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Leicester</a> were also recently blockaded by activists.</p><img width="394" height="263" src="https://i0.wp.com/freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/K1osjN0L.jpeg?resize=640%2C427&ssl=1" alt="" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 25px;">Entrance to JP Morgan Chase offices in Manchester, 26 June 2024<p>The
banks, who continue to invest in the Israeli arms company, had their
windows smashed and red paint thrown over their fronts. JP Morgan Chase
reduced their stake in Elbit by 70% a month ago, but their remaining
investment is currently valued at around <a href="https://fintel.io/so/us/eslt/jpmorgan-chase-" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">$16million</a>. Earlier this month, 20 branches of Barclays Bank in England and Scotland <a href="https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/06/10/shut-the-system-and-palestine-action-smash-20-barclays-branches/">were targeted</a> by Palestine Action and Shut It Down, a direct action group targeting companies who finance climate chaos.</p></div></div></div></div></div>
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