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Protesters shut down UK-based Israeli arms factory
Palestine solidarity campaigners and anti-war activists shut down three UK based “death factories” belonging to Elbit, Israel’s largest arms producer.
On 6 July, demonstrators rallied against the manufacture of weapons used in war crimes and to demand that Elbit’s factories are permanently closed. Elbit produces drone parts for the Israeli military.
Amnesty International reported that drone components made in the UK were used in Israel’s 2008-9 attack on Gaza, which killed over 1,400 Palestinians, and the 2014 offensive which killed more than 2,200 Palestinians, including 551 children.
“Elbit is coined a 'death factory', because that's exactly what it is," said campaigner Sarah Wilkinson. "Today's protest was to send out a bold message to Israel and its supporters, that the unwitting British public should not be made complicit in Israel's ongoing war crimes against the Palestinian people."
Protesters shut down UK-based Israeli arms factory
Except that they have Failed to shut the factory for good.
Some win. Ha !