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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Cry harder, Elbit: Palestine Action SHUT UAV Engines for second time this week</h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time">November 27, 2024<br></div>
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<p><a href="https://www.thecanary.co/topics/palestine-action/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestine Action</a>
were back in Staffordshire on Wednesday 27 November – blockading
Elbit-supplying UAV Engines factory for the second time in a matter of
days; disrupting Israel’s weapons supply chain in the process.</p>
<p>Following on from P<a href="https://palestineaction.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alestine Action’s</a> blockade of <a href="https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/11/25/palestine-action-staffordshire-elbit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UAV Engines on Monday 25 November</a>,
when activists locked on inside vehicles, blocking both gates to the
site, others returned today, to once again disrupt the weapons factory:</p><p></p>
<p><a href="https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/MPOPE_A693408-scaled.jpg"><img src="https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/MPOPE_A693408-scaled.jpg" alt="UAV Engines Palestine Action Elbit" width="2560" height="1707" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img"></a>Lock-ons were once again carried out inside vehicles that blocked the factory’s main gate:</p><img src="cid:ii_m40jfeym3" alt="GdZcnMgXYAAPwkA.jpg" width="468" height="312"><br><p></p>
<p><img src="cid:ii_m40jdec52" alt="MPOPE_A693415-scaled.jpg" width="320" height="468"></p>
<p><a href="https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/MPOPE_A693415-scaled.jpg"><img src="https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/MPOPE_A693415-scaled.jpg" alt="UAV engines Elbit Palestine Action" width="1749" height="2560" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img"></a></p>
<p>UAV manufactures <a href="https://uavenginesltd.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">engines for the killer drones</a>
of Elbit Systems, Israel’s biggest weapons manufacturer. As well as
producing engines for Elbit’s Hermes 450 drone, which has played a
central role in the Gaza Genocide, the UEL AR731 Wankel-type rotary
engine, produced at Shenstone, is being used in the Israeli Aerospace
Industries (IMI) Harop Kamikase drone, which is currently being upgraded
to kill autonomously.</p>
<p>At Shenstone, cops faffed around – unsure of how to deal with
Palestine Action as usual. After several hours, they finally made
arrests:</p>
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<p>Today’s action, and the one on Monday, came in the face of unprecedented state repression.</p>
<h2>Unparalleled state repression – thanks to Elbit and Israel</h2>
<p>22 Palestine Action activists are currently being held in British
prisons, for resisting complicity in genocide, with some subject to
repressive ‘counter terror’ powers, even though none of these political
prisoners are charged with any terrorist offence.</p>
<p>UAV’s Shenstone factory has been targeted since the beginning of
Palestine Action’s four-year long direct action campaign, and since
October 7th 2023, we have shut the site down repeatedly, with blockades,
occupations, and vehicular lock-ons. Our relentless commitment to
closing them down, has led to the Staffordshire firm reporting its first
ever operating loss.</p>
<p>A spokesperson for Palestine Action said:</p>
<blockquote><p>As the British government’s complicity in the Gaza
genocide becomes more and more exposed, their answer is repression, and
attempting to intimidate those fighting to end their complicity. In the
face of this repression, our direct action campaign will not waver, our
political prisoners remain strong, and history will judge those with
blood on their hands, and those fighting to end the genocide.</p></blockquote>
<p><em>Featured image and additional images via Martin Pope</em></p>
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