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In the early hours of this morning, 15th April 2025, two activists from Palestine Action successfully evaded security, to occupy the roof of ‘GRiD Defence Systems’ at Holtspur Lane, High Wycombe. The military hardware firm is a key supplier to Elbit Systems, Israel’s biggest weapons maker, manufacturing a range of military computers and processors, as well as other military electronics.
In addition to supplying Elbit, GRiD provide key components to other arms manufacturers who have been up to their necks in the Gaza Genocide, including Lockheed Martin. manufacturers of F-35 ‘fighter’ jets, Leonardo, who produce Apache attack helicopters, and Instro Precision who make weapons sights, target acquisition systems, and electronic optics systems for the Israeli military.
Palestine Action last visited GRiD in June 2024, with 4 activists barricading themselves inside the plant, and destroying military hardware found there. At the time, a Palestine Action spokesperson warned: “GRiD is just one of the companies we know to be supplying Elbit. From intel gleaned from actions, to information passed on by whistleblowers – we know who you are, and any firm doing business which enables genocide should not be surprised when they too are shut down.”
The aim of Palestine Action, in stopping production at GRiD, is to intervene in the genocidal supply chain, which allows British companies to manufacture weapons, in whole or in part, which are then used to devastating effect against the civilian population of Gaza.
A spokesperson for Palestine Action said: “Since our previous occupation of the GRiD Defence Systems site, Gaza has been reduced to rubble, its entire infrastructure laid waste, and the population systematically massacred. Israel threatens the very existence of the Palestinian people, in Palestine, and while they commit war-crime after war-crime, Keir Starmer, and his corrupt and morally-bankrupt front bench, say nothing.
In marked contrast, there are still people in this country willing to put their liberty on the line to take direct action against Israel’s military supply chain and uphold international law. We are on the right side of history.”
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NOTES TO EDITORS
If you would like any further information on Palestine action, please contact media@palestineaction.org
Palestine Action is a direct-action network of groups and individuals formed with the mandate of taking action against the sites of Elbit Systems and other companies complicit in Israeli apartheid, calling for all such sites to be shut down.