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Following on from Palestine Actionโs successful action against Edinburghโs Leonardo weapons plant yesterday, there were 2 more actions in Scotland early today.
Overnight, Palestine Action made a return visit to Keysight Technologies at Lochside Place, Edinburgh, breaking windows, and covering the premises in symbolic blood-red paint. The Glasgow offices of Allianz Insurance, on Waterloo Street, were also redecorated with blood-red paint, with the words, โAZ drop Elbit, itโs genocideโ painted on the building.
Keysight Technologies, whose sites across England and Scotland, have previously been targeted by Palestine Action, provide electronic components to UAV Tactical Systems for use in the killer drones they manufacture at their Leicestershire plant. Keysight also export military electronics direct to Israel. UAV Tactical is owned by Elbit, Israelโs biggest weapons maker, who produce more than 85% of Israelโs killer drone fleet, with engines for the Hermes 450 and Harop and Harpy attack drones being manufactured at UAVโs Shenstone factory.
Allianz provide the insurance without which Elbit could no longer manufacture Israeli weapons in Britain. They have been targeted again and again by Palestine Action, with 15 sites being hit across Europe, on the same night, in January, and dozens of actions before and since then.
A spokesperson for Palestine Action said:
โWith Israel having abandoned all pretence to maintain the rules of the agreed โceasefireโ, and respect for international law, returning to its relentless bombing of the Palestinian population of Gaza, it is more important than ever to stop the manufacture and supply of the weapons being used to murder Palestinians. Britain is complicit in the slaughter, with Keir Starmerโs government, aiding and abetting the Israeli military, and covering for the war criminals in power there, politically. So long as Israeli weapons are manufactured in Britain, we will continue to target the companies producing them, and every firm who assists them in doing so.โ
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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 direct action against Elbit Systemsโ UK locations at grassroots level, calling for them all to be shut down and for the British government to end its complicity in Israeli apartheid.